Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTWagP3J2Ag

Dashing through the snow,

Alberta’s cash in hand,

O’er the fields he goes

He’s getting out of hand!

Schools are suffering!

Healthcare is not so bright!

Oh how sad it is to sing

About Alberta’s plight!

Where’s the jobs, where’s the jobs?

Kenney, where are they?

What you’ve done is cruel and dumb!

Why can’t you go away? OH

Where’s the jobs, where’s the jobs?

Kenney, where are they?

What you’ve done is cruel and dumb,

So here’s some coal today! (throw coal)

Coal for Kenney!

Tune: Let It Snow

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9wiJjPZH6c

The climate outside is frightful

So it’s time to be insightful

Mining coal in an open pit?

Are we nuts? What a crock! Get a grip!

Our planet is slowly dying

And on coal, we’re still relying???

Our world is now all ablaze

So we’re DONE, dirty coal, bad old days.

When we’ve finally seen the light

That Alberta to its shame will not save

Our pristine rivers from this blight

Ridin’ that coal lobby wave!

The time is long past for pining

We say NO to coal strip-mining

But so long as the province dares

Write the Feds! Try the Feds! Join who cares!

The Ottawa Climate Minister

Has some clout for things so sinister

There’s federal tools to use  

Legislate, consul-tate, have reviews!

When we’ve finally seen the light

That Alberta to its shame will not save

Our pristine rivers from this blight

Ridin’ that coal lobby wave

The sheep with big horns will thank you

So will bears; the owls will hoot too

Since the fish have no place to go

Keep the coal in the ground… Just say no!

Hear your Grans, write the feds, roar like us…

Stop the Coal, on Eastern Slopes, Make a Fuss!!

The Calgary Raging Grannies, spring 2020, after the UCP government regressively struck down an early 70s ruling by the Progressive Conservatives  to stop strip mining in Alberta.  An Australian company has since bought land close to Blairmore and has already started construction with the UCP government’s blessing, though the Federal Government is examining the situation.

Tune:Here Comes
Santa Claus

Here comes Donald Trump, here comes Donald Trump

Straight down Alt-Right Lane

Spicer and Bannon and Huckabee-Sanders

Pullin’ on the reins.

Throwing tantrums, tweeting nonsense

Every bloody night

So jump in bed and cover your head

There’s a nut case in full flight.

Oh…Here comes Donald Trump, here comes Donald Trump

Spewing racist hate

The Klan is cheering and skinheads jeering

‘Cause everyone else is fake.

Black Lives matter is useless patter as far as Trump’s concerned

Climate change is a massive hoax

By the scientists he’s spurned.

Here comes Donald Trump, here comes Donald Trump

Women, watch your rears

If you’re female, he can kiss you

Drive us all to tears.

Women have caught him, shamed him, fought him

He just doesn’t tire

If you cross him, he will surely

Tweet that you’re a liar.

Here comes Donald Trump, here comes Donald Trump

Some just love this clown 

The Klan is happy with their new granddaddy

But….Alabama shut him down.

No bells are ringing, no children are singing

The Korea guy goads him on

So fill your hearts with Christmas fear

When the Donald is Putin’s pawn. 

Here comes Donald Trump, here comes Donald Trump

Building that damn wall

No immigration, in a white Trump nation

He’ll shut those borders all!

Peace on earth is a hopeless cause

When all is fearful and white

So let’s put faith in the ballot box

Til the Donald is out-ta sight.

Here comes Donald Trump, here comes Donald Trump

Straight down Alt-Right Lane

With Israeli Netan-yahooo

Stoking up the flames.

Throwing tantrums, tweeting nonsense

Nothing is merry and bright

So jump in bed and cover your head

There’s a nut case in full flight.

• Author: Granny Lynn, Calgary Raging Grannies, Christmas 2017

Uh oh we’re in the red, dear
On our credit card it shows
Christmas is almost over
But the debit line still grows

Shopping like Santa’s zombies
Sends our budget down in flames
But all our Yuletide spirit
Grows the giant retail chains.

I’m so foggy Christmas Eve
Wondering how we’ll pay
Christmas doesn’t seem so bright
When our finances are tight

So here’s a plan for next year
Let’s forget the shopping spree
Let’s give a gift of love, so
All our Christmas gifts are free!

Oh – Warming signs, warming signs

We’ve ignored the proof

Oh what fun it was to hide

From an inconvenient truth

Warming signs, warming signs

It’s time we faced the facts

With greenhouse gases on the rise

We need that carbon tax

Permafrost is melting

Ocean temperatures rise

All those cattle belching

Send methane to the skies

The carbon in the air

Is causing floods and droughts

Plastics everywhere

We have no time for doubts

Oh – Warming signs, warming signs

We must do something fast

Our world must stop reliance on

The planet’s oil and gas.

Author: Revised by Granny Susan, Calgary Raging Grannies

Date Last Used by YYC Grannies:  May 2018

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