Songs
Songs we've sung, written, and added to the central library.
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Pack Up Your Missiles
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 -
Peace in the World
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 -
Peace Is Breaking 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 -
Peace Pilgrim
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…
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Peace, Peace
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 -
Polychlorinated Biphenols
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 -
Prime Time Slime
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 -
Prisons
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 -
Profiling Opera
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 -
Profit 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 -
PTP’S (Persistent Toxic Pollutants)
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 -
Public Involvement (10/29/01)
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 -
Push Women Back in Time
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 -
Put It on the Ground
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…
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Qatar WTO
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 -
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
(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 -
Radical Environmentalists (The Original Version)
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…
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Radical Environmentalists – XL Pipeline
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…
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Radical Environmentalists-Coal
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…
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Radical New Economists
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