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.

When Raging Grans come marching in

When Raging Grans come marching in

You might WANT to be in that number

When Raging Grans come marching in

We’ve got to TURN this world around

We’ve got to turn our LIVES around

Cannot dump that NASTY plastic

In our seas or underground.

When Raging Grans come marching in

When Raging Grans come marching in

You might WANT to be in that number

When Raging Grans come marching in

We’ve got to TURN this world around

We’ve got to turn our LIVES around

Plastic beads and bags and wrappers

Don’t belong in sea or ground.

When Raging Grans come marching in

When Raging Grans come marching in

You might WANT to be in that number

When Raging Grans come marching in

We’ve got to change, we’ve got to start

We’ve got to TURN our lives around

Mother Earth cannot take Plunder

We gotta TURN our lives around.

Author:  Adapted by Granny Lynn, Calgary Raging Grannies

Copyright: None

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

Copyright: N/A

Tune: Pack Up Your Troubles

We’re the Raging Grannies and we’re all damn mad

Don’t smile, smile, smile

Nothing to smile about when Earth’s so sad

Don’t smile boys, that’s your style.

All we need is leadership

To set the climate right

So pack up the garbage in your old kit bag

And STOP this blight

Date Last Used by YYC Grannies:  May 2018

Copyright: None

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

Copyright: None

Oh, environment’s our concern and so we’re here

Environment’s our concern and so we’re here

It was a lovely invitation

Asking our participation

‘Cause we think our air and water should be clear

Oh the Earth is going to throw up over us

Oh the Earth is going to throw up over us

We’re polluting all our water

And we know we hadn’t oughta

Oh the Earth is getting sicker due to us.

So we must get out from under mental funk

And find a plan that deals with all this junk

We will fight for preservation

For our future generations

Else people, we are well and truly sunk.

Author:  Raging Grannies Songbook, p. 40; Adapted by Granny Lynn, Calgary Raging Grannies

Copyright: None

Date Last Used by YYC Grannies:  May 2018

Tune: Old Macdonald Had a Farm

See Grannies Perform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIIJBEICnc

Old Man Santo had a farm & he grew GMOs

And on that farm he spoiled the earth, cuz he grew GMOs

Well they wound up here & they wound up there

Super bugs, super weeds; blowing havoc through the air

Old Man Santo had a farm & he grew GMOs

Old Man Santo had a farm & he raised GMOs

On that farm he had a cow & she ate GMOs

Well the pig did too & the chicks in the slough

And the rooster gobbled up the chemical stew

Old Man Santo had a farm & he raised GMOs.

Old Man Santo had a farm & he sold GMOs

And everywhere that food’s for sale – they all bought GMOs

Not a label here, or a warning there….

Hey – Is that a pumpkin * growing facial hair??

Old Man Santo had a farm & he raised GMOs.

*Substitute another word for a common crop that grows in your area.

Date Last Used by YYC Grannies:

Copyright: (revised by Granny Sharon, May 2013 and Granny Lynn Apr 2014) Originally from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAeBpoKfnPUYou