Fossil-Fueled Tragedies

Lyrics by: Piedmont Raging Grannies
Gaggle: Piedmont Raging Grannies
Tune: Blowin’ in the Wind

How many houses must floods wash away

Before we achieve clean energy?

How many wildfires must wipe out our towns

B’fore we say the heat is too high?         

How many heat waves will it take ‘til we say            

Climate change is an existential threat?

 

CHORUS:      

       The last chance to curb fossil-fuel tragedies

       The last chance to change is right now

 

We can’t change the course of a hurricane    

By drawing with a Sharpie pen  

Si-lenced sci-ence as nature’s fury grows   

Leaves us rocked and shocked to tears 

How many years did we waste idling by     

As fossil fuel execs denied and lied?

 

CHORUS

 

How many wea-ther deaths must we see

Til fossil-fuel sub-sid-ies end?

Instead of changing climate on planet Mars 

Let’s work on healing planet earth 

We must stand together in solidarity

The lives we save may be our own

CHORUS – 2x