Children for sale,The third world has great buys, Male and female, They gladden corporate eyes. They weave rugs for the rich, stitch soc-cer balls, And make toys and shoes for export to our malls. No-o unions have they to prote-ect them, No-o fam’lies or friends to defe-end them. Third world kids don’t have enough. While our stores have too much…
(A) Another year has come and gone As we gather here once more To sing for love and justice And a new deal for the poor. (B) And now we raise our voices strong ’Though they might seem weak with age, And ’though we’re one year older now, We Grannies still can rage. (A) For voting rights for everyone We…
Down on Hiroshima, the atomic bomb fell, And children playing in the sun burned in a living hell! Shadows of their bodies marked where they had stood, Imprinted now into the ground of their own neighborhood. One moment they were playing, the next one they were dead. As fireballs and hellish heat across them quickly spread. Toddlers and babies, school-age…
Bombs rain down, in your town,Cries of terror and dread, Restless sleep, mothers weep, Circling drones fly overhead. Come to me, refugee, I lift my lamp high. By my light in the night You’ll be safe by and by. Flee you must! Those you trust Trudge for months, days, and hours, Moving on, through the dawn, Child of war and…
Pass the deal …Pass the dealWith Iran …With Iran Diplomacy is better Diplomacy is better Than a war … Than a war We don’t want no ..We don’t want no Stinking war….Stinking war Pass the deal already Pass the deal already Hear us roar …Hear us roar Other nations, Learn-ed experts They all say They all say By far the…
Right here, in our country There exist Children who don’t have enough food They are in our midst Each day, they go to school with Emptiness Grumbling in their tummies How can they learn like this No oatmeal, berries, yogurt or chicken, carrots, or cole slaw Sustain them Some wonder why they don’t care to Read or write…
If someone bombs a neighborhood It has to be understood That civilians will be in the path Of their bombs, Their firebombs, Their cluster bombs, Their deadly bombs, Those civilians will die From those bombs In ’45, from Nuremburg Around the world this vow was heard Never again to close our eyes, to war crimes War crimes War crimes …
Hello Christian rightWe prefer the Bill of Rights But now we must sing Praise The Lord Things don’t look so bright Kids pray in public schools Cause James Dobson writes the rules The 1st Amendment’s such a bore And Bible-thumping’s cool Fundamentalists Televangelists And Dominionists Our silence is their bliss Research on stem cells They say will send us straight…
Polar bears are drowning daily, Glaciers melting everywhere. Hell on earth is what awaits us And Congress doesn’t seem to care. Earth has a fever Fever like Sandy, fever like a massive drought New York City, underwater, May be what it’s all about. The Koch brothers pay their flunkies To call it all a lot of bunk But independent…
Imagine no more prisons,It isn’t hard to do No more human outcasts It’s up to me and you Imagine education And jobs for everyone [interlude] You may say I’m crazy But I’m not the only one Nobody’s born bad or lazy Earth is where we all come from Imagine true equality I wonder if you can All one human family…
