Our Power Could Be Clean & Cheap!

Lyrics by: Lee Stanfield
Gaggle: Tucson Raging Grannies
Tune: Life Could Be a Dream
Date Written or Updated: 08/16/26

Our power could be clean

and cheap, although TEP tells us lies and schemes

to make us think it must keep burning fossil fuel

to de-pendably keep us cool!

 

It’s a travesty-y-y

that TEP ignores the solar energy-y-y

that falls upon us every day, and since it’s free

would lower rates for you and me-e-e.

 

            Shaboom, Shaboom…. They don’t talk about the new batteries…

            Shaboom, Shaboom…. With four day re-lia-bil-i-ty!

 

Life’s never a drea-eam.

But it’s insane for us to have to pay extreme

profits to TEP’s wealthy investors

while they ignore our desp’rate screams!

 

Public Power’s what we-e-e

should replace TEP with… That way you and me-e-e

will have much lower rates and our ‘lectricity

will come from solar en-er-gy!

 

            Shaboom, Shaboom….We must stop this wealth transfer!

            Shaboom, Shaboom! Stop paying TEP investers!

 

Public Power means that we-e-e

will own our very own electric company-y.

We won’t be sending even one single penny-y

of profit to anybody !

 

            Shaboom, Shaboom…. A Public Power utility!

            Shaboom, Shaboom! A Boost  for LOCAL economy!

 

Tell our Mayor and Counci-il

that we want Public Power on the ballot this fa-all!

So there can be a vote by ev’ry one and all

We can’t afford more TEP stall!

 

            SHABOOM, SHABOOM…. THE CLIMATE CRISIS LOOMS!

            SHABOOM! SHABOOM!

WE NEED PUBLIC POWER…. RIGHT NOW!