Tune:  We Shall Not Be Moved

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MywZyOZRsY

We are not, we’re not giving up

We are not EVER giving up

We know we’re in this struggle for the long haul

We’re not giving up

Even during Covid, we’re not giving up

Although we’re growing older, we’re not giving up

We know we’re in this struggle for the long haul

We’re not giving up

Though we feel like crying, we’re not giving up

We’ll stand up to lying, we’re not giving up

We know we’re in this struggle for the long haul

We’re not giving up

We are not, we’re not giving up!

We are not EVER giving up

We know we’re in this struggle for the long haul

We’re not giving up

We fight the Almighty Dollar, we’re not giving up

For public good, we’ll holler, we’re not giving up

We know we’re in this struggle for the long haul

We’re not giving up

We are not, we’re not giving up

We are not EVER giving up

We know we’re in this struggle for the long haul

We’re not giving up

Original song by Mississippi John Hurt, reworked by The Calgary Raging Grannies spring, 2020

Tune: Old MacDonald

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

Our Alberta has some parks Eyi, Eyi Oh

And to these parks we love to go Eyi, Eyi Oh

With a grey jay here and a big moose there

Here a dear, there a bear

Pristine land is everywhere!

We adore Alberta’s Parks Eyi, Eyi,Oh

Then the UCP got in Eyi, Eyi, Oh

Their plan for parks is such a sin Eyi, Eyi, Oh

Blow up mountains here, for a strip mine there

Sold off here, shut down there

Campsites lost from everywhere!

We don’t want our parklands sold

Eyi, Eyi, Oh!!

For our parks we have to fight Eyi, Eyi, Oh

Cos their destruction’s just not right Eyi, eyi, Oh

With an email here, and a letter there

Here some chalk, there some chalk

Sing our songs out everywhere!

Save the parks we love and know

 Eyi, Eyi, Oh

Written by Calgary Raging Grannies, Spring 2020, after the UCP government stated it would sell certain parks, which it then restated as not sell, but “transfer” which it then restated as no, not “transfer” but “delist”, then sell.

Homelessness is OUTrageous

It’s time to call a halt!

We have to learn the reasons why

It’s surely someone’s fault.

Who profits from our poverty?

Who stands and make the rules?

The system has to change!

Chorus:

Sing for peace and social justice

March for peace and social justice

Work for peace and social justice

And Housing for us all!

Homelessness is OUTrageous

We people struggle still!

We’re tired of teensy handouts

And no POLiticians’ will.

The governments hear CEE-ee-os

The corporations rule

The system has to change!

Chorus:

Sing for peace and social justice

March for peace and social justice

Work for peace and social justice

And Housing for us all!

Author: Calgary Raging Grannies

Date Last Used by YYC Grannies:  2011

Copyright: None

There’s a flaw in the system,

We know it, we know it,

There’s a flaw in the system,

We know it full well.

So why are we marching

To occupy Calgary?

And what about bankers

And why should we care?

Well, banks make their trillions

And CEOs billions

And pad their expenses

While their revenues swell.

There’s too much corruption

And not enough gumption

For government to fix it

And we’re mad as hell!

If government won’t fix it

We’ll have to go marching

If we don’t like the system

We have to speak out!

The rich scam on taxes

On us fall the axes,

To carry the deficit

And bailouts as well.

Well, Grannies want justice

Or some kind of fairness,

We’re Raging and Ready

And Here’s what we Tell:

There’s a flaw in the system,

We know it, we know it,

There’s a flaw in the system,

AND WE’RE STILL MAD AS HELL!

By Calgary Raging Grannies, based on a song

by the Parliamentary Hill Mob, Oct.2011