Chainsaw by Janet Jordan for the Raging Grannies of Olympia, Washington US To the tune Valparaiso In a Rowboat words & music by Zeke Hoskin & copyrighted Used by permission Chorus Chainsaw! Chainsaw! They’re taking it down! They’re taking it down. Because they hate the gummint They are taking it to the ground. And there’s never been a program To…
Mine eyes have seen the coming of American royalty Anointed by the Court Supreme with all immunity To prevent a presidential king, it’s up to you and me If Democracy goes marching on CHORUS: Power lust is never satisfied Billionaires, they want to rule our lives Pay low wages and jack up our living costs Enough! Demand your rights! I’ve…
Make America kind again! Save democracy! Teach our children truthfully: The truth will set us free! Let us be more welcoming! Let us be more kind! For out of many we are one With loving ties that bind! We can save our wondrous world From ignorance and greed, If all our hearts and hands unite To serve each other’s…
RAISE YOUR VOICE Listen with heart, you’ll hear their voices calling from Palestine, where terror reigns supreme voices of sorrow, grief and desperation They call to us: to our humanity So raise your voice to protest inhumanity! And raise your voice for thousands who’ve been slain Together we must change the course of history Keep singing loud and proud…
Over there! Over there! Don’t you dare kill those kids over there! Babies pure with virtue They never hurt you You must not harm them over there! So, beware! Yes, beware! Listen up! Read our lips! Say a prayer ’cause we’re raging! Yes, really raging! And we WON’T! SHUT! UP! ‘Til it’s over over there!
We call for Liberation, Peace for Palestine We call for Liberation, Peace for Palestine We’ll keep protesting ’til the bombs stop dropping Peace for Palestine We need a revolution Peace for Palestine We need a revolution Peace for Palestine We’ll keep protesting ’til the bombs stop dropping Peace for Palestine We demand equality, Peace for Palestine We…
When I think of Gaza’s plightthe children haunt me day and nightAll the children who are cryingAll the children who are dyingAnd the things they’ve seenthat no one should have to bearhappening thereSo filled with fear, they’re silent Children should be having funSafe place to play, safe place to runWholesome food and good, clean water,Safety for their moms and fathersThey…
The government’s spending our taxesOn god-awful weapons of warThat are killing some other mothers’ childrenLeft grieving on some distant shore. They’re buying up more ammunition,Missiles and bombers and drones,Bringing death and destruction to millions,Destroying their cities and homes. CHORUS: But this is no time to weep and to whine, Our grief is real as we spill our tears; And though times may seem…
Oh ancient land of Palestine, the tanks are rolling byThe children run as soldiers guns alarm them and make them cryAnd in the dark streets shineth the merciless searchlightsThe hopes and fears of all the years are smoldering tonight How noisily, how noisily, the shells fall down like rainSo fear imparts to human hearts despair and crushing painFor Palestine’s imprisoned…
We’re gonna get rid of nasty nukesWe will abolish them – we will abolish them We will abolish themWe’re gonna get rid of nasty nukesWe will abolish them – abolish them for good We ain’t gonna study war no moreain’t gonna study war no moreStudy war no more!We ain’t gonna study war no moreain’t gonna study war no moreStudy war…
