Ban, Ban, Ban Those Books

Lyrics by: Lee Stanfield
Gaggle: Tucson Raging Grannies
Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Date Written or Updated: 07/29/22

                                Ban, ban, ban those books

                                  and civ-ics lessons too!

                                That’s the way that pow-er’s kept

                                by the wealthy few!

 

                                That’s why slaves were nev-er taught

                                how to read or write

                                  So they could not find out the truth

                                  and rem-edy their plight.

 

                                  So ban, ban, ban those books.

                                  We must ensure that kids

                                make all of the same mistakes

                                that their parents did.

 

                                We must not let kids find out

                                  there’s al-ways more than one

                                 way to solve a prob-lem

                                   and they don’t require a gun!

 

                                 Ban-ning books will in the end

                                  des-troy democra-cy

                                  by let-ting wanna-be tyrants

                                re-write histo-ry.

 

                                 So ban, ban, ban those books

                                 and lis-ten to Fox News.

                                 But when our free-dom’s gone don’t whine.

very slow ->         It was up to you to choose!