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Look at Wal-Mart

Look at Wal-Mart in your city Where the people often shop, It’s a store that sells cheap products Made in foreign sweatshops.             So stop shopping at this Wal-Mart             ’Til it treats...

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The Wal-Mart Round

Wal-Mart sucks… The life out of towns! The mom and pop stores have to close their doors And local economies fall through the floor! Yes, Wal-Mart sucks. Wal-Mart stinks… Of corporate greed! They sell...

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We Won’t Buy!

Oh, Wal-Mart’s come into our town And discounted all their prices down. They’ve built big stores. They’re keeping their prices very low By paying their workers far below A living wage. They sell cheap...

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No Frackin’, No Way!

Oh, give us a beach Where oil spills can’t reach, And there’s no sticky goo on the sand, Where children can play, And the birds and fish stay Free from harm… that’s our simple demand. CHORUS:...

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Fiscal Cliff Talk

Fiscal Cliff Talk Tune of Little Boxes Fis- cal cliff talk as the globe warms, Fis- cal cliff talk as they dil- ly dal- ly, Fis- cal cliff talk on the bube tube, Fis- cal cliff talk is a scam. There’s...

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America The Not-So Beautiful

O Crucible of Specious Lies Tune of America The Beautiful O crucible of specious lies And greedy raves of gain, Where dollars vote, there freedom dies, Washed down the swirling drain. America! America!...

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And Now a Word from the 1% on Climate Change

Free markets must be able to indulge their every whim Environmental laws and regs will bring a future grim Planet liveability is not our concern Because for us, the key concept is me, me, me, me Count...

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Capitalist Cronies

Capitalist cronies Are not our BFFs Don’t want us to be free Make deals like TPP That’s Trans-Pacific Partnership, to be clear The jobs that we have here We’ll have no more.   Clean air and water Will...

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We’re Rising Up! (One Billion Rising!)

We’re the Raging Grannies and we’re here to take a stand, To keep choice free for women all across our mighty land. We won’t go back to hangers if our right to choose is banned! We’re Rising Up today!...

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We’re Rising Up (REVISED)

We’re the Raging Grannies and we’re here to take a stand, To break the chain of our abuse across this mighty land. We proclaim our dignity, and justice our demand… We’re Rising Up today! Chorus:   No...

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No! No! No! You Don’t

No! No! No! you don’t Tell me what to do. My body, my body, my body is mine; It won’t be ruled by you. No! No! No! you won’t Silence womens’ voice. Whether to have a baby or not Remains a private...

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Chalked the Sidewalk

Chalked the Sidewalk (Tune: “Clementine” Lyrics © by Vicki Ryder Chalked the sidewalk (it was washable) Chalked the sidewalk last night; Wrote a message to the banksters, That gauging poor folks isn’t...

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Song for the Homeless

We stand upon the corner but the cars go right on by We see the people looking watching us but they avoid our eyes We hold out signs, hope for a coin, for food and for supplies But the people think we...

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Realize the Dream (March on Washington)

We’re the Raging Grannies and it’s turning our hair gray To think that men in suits are taking all our rights away. We fought this fight before and now we fight again today! Not one step back! No way!...

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We Rage to End All War, updated to include Syria

We’re the Raging Grannies and we’re here to take a stand Against the senseless killing raging in Afghanistan, Iraq is still a quagmire and Syria won’t be grand. We rage to end all war! CHORUS No more...

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Earth Has a Fever

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...

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Behead Every Mountain

Intro: And now, a word from the 1% on what’s new and exciting in coal mining!   Behead every mountain There’s coal in there Dump it in the valley We don’t really care   You can scream climate change...

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Vets at Walter Reed

The original was revised [post-Bush] by Sunny Armer. Where is the healthcare For vets at Walter Reed Congress, support the troops! Don’t make them jump through hoops To get the benefits That they so...

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Demography vs. Democracy

Israelis have a terrible problem And they’re told that it will extinguish them It’s called demography; they don’t know what to do And so democracy is now their problem too It’s called demography; they...

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Occupation

Occupation Occupation Occupation Breeds resistance   Negotiation Negotiation Negotiation Will bridge the distance   Arabs suffer like we do When bombs they are subjected to Just like Jewish kids Their...

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