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Songs

Songs we've sung, written, and added to the central library.

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  1. Pack Up Your Missiles

    2013 · Kay Thode · to the tune of Pack Up Your Troubles

    Pack up your missiles And disarm them all– And make no more. It is disarmament Makes us stand tall, Not weapons of war. What’s the use of missiles? They’re only…

    War & Peace
  2. Peace in the World

    2013 · Unlisted Songwriter · to the tune of All Through the Night

    from Kelowna Raging Grannies Lives were lost, a country damaged, Terror unfurled. Revenge and blame will never get us Peace in the world. While the nations grieve in sorrow, Together…

    War & Peace
  3. Peace Is Breaking Out All Over

    2013 · Unlisted Songwriter · to the tune of June is Busting Out All Over

    Peace is breaking out all over! The world is getting so intent On improving our relations With all the other nations Our aim is now complete disarmament! Peace is breaking…

    War & Peace
  4. Peace Pilgrim

    2025 · Unlisted Songwriter

    I am love, I walk the path of love. I am peace, I wanl the path of peace. Every step I take is the path of my heart. Every step…

    War & Peace
  5. Peace, Peace

    2013 · Unlisted Songwriter

    Peace, peace, peace, peace. Wars must end and wars must cease. We must learn to live together. Peace, peace, peace. Peace, peace, peace, peace. Make homelessness and hunger cease. We…

    Human & Civil Rights War & Peace
  6. Polychlorinated Biphenols

    2014 · the time it kills somebody

    Do as a rap or make up a tune The Raging Grannies Songbook, 1993 Poly-chlorinated biphe-e-nols Will fry your brain and rot your adre-e-enals, Concentrating in our fatty tissue. This…

    Environment & Energy
  7. Prime Time Slime

    2013 · Karen Schneider-Chen · to the tune of Home on the Range

    Edmonton Grannies, adapted by Karen Schneider-Chen Oh, give us TV, without violence, please! We’ve discussed this at least fifty years. We’re sick and we’re tired To see programming mired In…

    Education Guns & Violence Human & Civil Rights
  8. Prisons

    2013 · Kay Thode · to the tune of Home on the Range

    Prisons, prisons, more jails, The response to our system’s travails, Where seldom is heard, An encouraging word, And the skies are not seen all the day. We lock up our…

    Government & Power Human & Civil Rights
  9. Profiling Opera

    2013 · Monica Zucker · to the tune of Mack The Knife

    Oh, police have perfect vision To distinguish wrong from right. Their decisions are made easy— It’s like telling black from white. Oh, the drug war gives incentive For a thousand…

    Government & Power Human & Civil Rights Local Issues Racism & Social Justice
  10. Profit Bells

    2013 · Unlisted Songwriter · to the tune of Jingle Bells

    Chorus: Profits here, profits there, profits everywhere! Christmas time is funny, smell money in the air. Advertise, glamorize, fool you with a flair. Let’s make sure that Christmas is a…

    Business & Economy Holiday & Celebrations
  11. PTP’S (Persistent Toxic Pollutants)

    2014 · Kay Thode

    tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean Kay Thode They've poisoned the food on our dishes Even breast milk contains PTPs We eat, drink and breathe those pollutants, When will…

    Environment & Energy
  12. Public Involvement (10/29/01)

    2014 · Kay Thode · to the tune of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

    We’ve written, we’ve sung and we’ve spoken, All of it to no avail, No matter how reasoned our stance is, You just keep ignoring our tale. Chorus: Listen, listen, Heed…

    Environment & Energy Local Issues
  13. Push Women Back in Time

    2025 · Hinda Kipnis · to the tune of Deep in the Heart of Texas

    The fascist right Flex their might Push women back in time Outlaw our choice Silence our voice Push women back in time Angry men who hate Fear for their fate…

    Gender Equity
  14. Put It on the Ground

    2014 · Unlisted Songwriter

    Words, Ray Glaser; Music, Bill Wolff; Copyright 1937, People’s Songs, Inc. Oh, if you want a raise in pay, all you have to do, Go and ask the boss for…

    Labor & Worker Rights
  15. Qatar WTO

    2013 · Kay Thode · to the tune of When Johnny Comes Marching Home

    WTO has met again, this time Qatar. The Persian Gulf’s an unlikely place—it’s quite bizarre. They don’t want protesters to have their say. They chose a site that is far,…

    Business & Economy Government & Power
  16. R-E-S-P-E-C-T

    2013 · Jo-Hanna Read

    (a la Aretha Franklin) Solo with background group, which sings chorus and parts in ( ) R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me. R-E-S-P-E-C-T Listen up, AIG. We gave…

    Business & Economy Government & Power War & Peace
  17. Radical Environmentalists (The Original Version)

    2019 · Kay Thode · to the tune of She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain

    Oh, we’re radical environmentalists, We’re radical environmentalists, We like clean air and clean water, Just like the farmer’s daughter. We’re radical environmentalists! Oh, we like our veggies without pesticides, And…

    Environment & Energy
  18. Radical Environmentalists – XL Pipeline

    2013 · Unlisted Songwriter · to the tune of She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain

    Oh, we’re radical environmentalists. We’re radical environmentalists. We like clean air and clean water, And our beaches in good order. We’re radical environmentalists. Oh, we don’t like energy from fossil…

    Environment & Energy
  19. Radical Environmentalists-Coal

    2025 · Kay Thode · to the tune of Coming Round the Mountain

    By Kay Thode, Vicki Ryder, Carolyn Powers, Laurie Rostholder Oh, we’re radical environmentalists. We’re radical environmentalists, No more coal should be mined, (no break) And the coal plants shut not…

    Environment & Energy
  20. Radical New Economists

    2013 · Unlisted Songwriter · to the tune of She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain

    Oh, we’re radical new economists, We’re radical new economists, We like health care and fair wages,→ And sweatshops give us rages, // We’re radical new economists. We like rules made…

    Business & Economy