Tune: My Darling Clementine

There’s a cycle, a roller coaster

In Alberta, that’s our fate

Selling oil as fast as we can —

As if the stuff went out of date.

Not to mention, piddly royalties

For those of us, who own the stuff

Corporate oil tears, oh such hooey

Every quarter, earnings up. 

There’s a crisis, that’s for certain

In our brains and on our land

A fire sale to sell our bitumen

Cannot be the energy plan.

Production’s rising, can you believe it?

More fossil fuel is the party line!

The experts tell us we need to leave it

But more oil out, so more pipeline. 

Our problem is, consumption’s GROWING

People, give your heads a shake

Our poor climate, kicked and battered

The very planet is at stake.

How to crack this, that’s the question

Please Albertans, have some guts

We need DE-growth on our planet

Stop expanding, are we nuts?

Hear your Grannies, stop stupid buying….

Earth has limits to its growth

Oceans gagging, people dying

Heed your Grannies, enough’s enough!

[Slowly, wearily ….]

At least we have a carbon tax that

Seeks to make the users pay…..

If you have another plan, dear

Tell us now, not Apocolypse day.

Granny Lynn, Calgary Raging Grannies, April 2019

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!

Wall-to-wall carpets and bone china dishes

Crystal aquariums, exotic fishes

Gold-plated faucets, a toilet that sings

These are a few of our least favourite things.

We’re bombarded with junk mail from stores like the Bay

They’re shoved in our houses, whatever we say

Buy this and buy that, use credit to pay

Try to buy frivolous things every day!

But…Coal fired-energy adds to pollution

Windmills and solar are better solutions

Stop killing our forests and spoiling our land

All in response to the corporate demand.

This is stupid – really stupid!

We must all get mad!!

Our garbage reduce, wasteful spending refuse –

Our world wouldn’t BE SO BAD!!

Date Last Used by YYC Grannies:  April  2016

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