Too many dying and families crying,We need to rein in the guns and do it Now! Now! Now!
We’re gonna build a better future
And we’re gonna start right now.
We all bewail those gun show sales.
We don’t want weapons of war being sold in stores.
We’re gonna build a better future
And we’re gonna start right now.
We need to get those background checks,
And keep the guns from the ones who’d kill us Now! Now! Now!
We’re gonna build a better future
And we’re gonna start right now.
In Las Vegas in Orlando,
In Sandy Hook and Columbine and at Virginia Tech,
The blood was spilling; we must be willing,
To speak out for gun reform.
We are a-wa-re that thoughts and pra-yers
Will not stop all the guns now in the killers’ hands;
We need new laws that do much more
And we demand to have them now!
You politicians who might be wishin’
That you can wash all the blood from your complicit hands;
Break with the N-R-A! We need new laws today,
And we demand to have them now!
No more waiting or hesitating!
We must fight with all our might for stronger gun reform!
We’re gonna build a better future
And we’re gonna start right now.
[Don’t know the melody?
See: https:www.youtube.comwatch?v=4CI3lhyNKfo]
With thanks to the Eugene, Oregon, gaggle of Grannies for reminding us of this stirringly strong melody, originally sung by the Italian Resistance.
