Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP_vivZ6a1I&t=88s

We’re not playing your blame game
We’re not part of your crowd
UCP’s treatment of Docs is wrong
Don’t chase them out with this pandemic on!
So we’ll root, root, root for our doctors
To lose them would be insane
So that’s one, huge bad call you’ve made
We won’t play your game

We’re not playing your blame game
We’re not part of your crowd
Bad-mouthing nurses is such a shame
Busting of unions won’t be in my name
So we’ll root, root, root for our nurses
They’re WORTH their weight in pure gold
So that’s 1, 2 huge strikes you’ve made
Put this game on hold!

We’re not playing your blame game
We’re not part of your crowd

Our public healthcare we have to save
Two-tier health for Alberta is grave

So we’ll root, root, root for our healthcare
To privatize would be insane
So that’s 1, 2, 3 strikes you’re out
We won’t play your game!

Now that I’m older, losing my health

In my golden years (kazoo – toot-toot-toot-toot-toot)

Can I still be counting on some Medicare?

Or a two-tiered system – patient beware!

If I’m in need of emergency care,

Will they lock the door?

Will they still heed me, will they still treat me

When I’m eighty-four?

I could be clever, stock up on pills

Vitamins galore (kazoo – toot-toot-toot-toot-toot)

Jog a mile or so, a hundred push-ups too

Eat some bran and delicious tofu

Turn up my nose at deep apple pie

And buttered-dripping scones

Will they still heed me, will they still treat me

If I break some bones?

Send them a postcard, drop them a line

Stating point of view (kazoo – toot-toot-toot-toot-toot)

Indicate precisely what you mean to say

Else you’ll find you’re wasting away

Ask for an answer, not just a form

A citizen’s just due

Will they still heed me, will they still treat me

When I`m ninety-two?

Copyright tune: The Beatles

Adapted by Lethbridge Raging Grannies, revised Calgary 1999

Oh….We’re just a gaggle of – Grannies

Urging you off of your – fannies

We’re telling you straight

Before it’s too late

We want NO MORE CUTS

With all the money they’re spending

Plus all the dollars they’re lending

The disabled need aid

And aides who get paid

We say STOP THE CUTS

Although it’s such a tradition

To blame our woes on the debt

Let’s put that thought in remission

And reclaim our safety net.

SO…. We may be a gaggle of – Grannies

But we’ve gotten off of our – fannies

We’re telling you now

Your Grannies know how

We want NO MORE CUTS.

We really mean it – STOP THE CUTS

We’ll say it nicely – NO MORE CUTS

Read our Lips: (silently) Stop the cuts

Author:  Edmonton Raging Grannies; revised CRG 2013

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