I went to the insurance company.They turned my claim down there, Said it wasn’t covered, And they really didn’t care. O, I went to see my doctor, And he said he couldn’t spend Fifteen minutes with me! Such things have got to end. Oh, my pills they cost me plenty, And I know I’m going broke. This new fangled health…
We put our right hand in as we work for wars to cease,We raise our right arm high as we join the march for peace. We raise our voices loudly as we Grannies gather ’round, That’s what it’s all about! We put our left hand in for the children everywhere, We raise our left arm high, we’ve got lots of…
This OLD gray Granny ain’t what she used to be,HAD a hysterectomy, NEEDS a colonoscopy, But SHE can’t afford to PAY for her care and so I GUESS we’ll have to shoot her now. ‘Cause WHERE is she supposed to go WHEN she doesn’t have the dough? She DARE not get sick without health insurance so I GUESS we’ll have…
[I wrote this song to be sung on the day before Obama took office, when anti-Bush demonstrators were staging a “smudging” ceremony at the White House.] We sweep and sanitize To clean out Bush’s lies! He thought that he could fool us But we’re Grannies old and wise. We’ll sing it loud and clear: Bush played upon our fears. He…
Ding-Dong….see how money flies….In all its many guises…. It’s only paper anyway… In all its many sizes… Does anybody know what gives With hedge funds and derivatives? Swaps ‘n Ponzis……and financial flips? Seems head honchos don’t know either! Ding-Dong….pie-in-the-sky…. Watch out for money movers….. They’ll distract your attention every time… And then your dough gets Hoovered! It’s made of debt….our…
So…….th’ system didn’t work so well…It didn’t catch the crooks…. Even looked the other way for years While Madoff cooked the books! Madoff….made off with 50 billion In his Ponzi schemes….. We gotta change the system To foil crooked dreams. Th’ economy and the markets Are not cast in stone…. Not geologic crystals… Unchanging…..stand-alone…. They’re systems that were designed by…
Oh, you better watch outYou better not buy Toys for the kids That are violent, Oh fie! Santa Claus is coming to town. Santa says no to submachine guns Legos and games are much more fun Santa Claus is coming to town The reindeer all cooperate As they fly on their way We can teach our kids the same In…
From the fall of Lehman Brothers to the fall of AIG,We will bail out all investment firms and insurance companies. For we bankrolled lots of S&Ls, but screwed Enron employees, So if your house has been foreclosed, don’t ask for our help, please. If Katrina blew your house away when you lived in New Orleans, And we gave you toxic…
ONLY BALONEY Dum-dum-dum-dumdy-doo-wah Oooh-yay-yay-yay-ye-ah Oh-oh-oh-oh-do-wah Only baloney! Only baloney! Only balo-oney, Dum-dum-dum-dumdy-doo-wah the lies that led us into war, Oooh-yay-yay-yay-ye-ah Only balo-oney, Oh-oh-oh-h-wah Deceit and lies galore! Dum-dum-dum-dumdy-doo-wah We’re in it for power…. We knew from the start…. Corporate profits…. are off of the charts! Aaaand …. their stories are phoney! They li-i-ie But why….. All the baloney? Dum-dum-dum-dumdy-doo-wah Ooh-yay-yay-yay-ye-ah…
Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you thinkWe activists, will wind up in the clink The Feds close in, as quickly as a wink Enjoy yourself, deploy yourself, It’s later than you think! You demonstrate, for years and years With signs and shouts to show You hate us being in Iraq To steal their oil, we know. Some day they say,…
