Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW9g8jI2XuM

We love democracy,  we need democracy

We will dissent when our morals say

We have our voices  and we will use them

Please don’t take democracy away

And we object to your squelching protest

We love discussion, we love debate

And we will value  different opinions

We abhor a heavy-handed state

In our democracy, it’s OUR democracy

There is no room for Bill One’s flaws

We love our Charter… and Bill One scares us

We abhor this heavy handed law

So in Alberta, we have to fight for

The right to gather and disagree

When those elected… will not protect it…

We will fight for our democracy. 

Written by the Calgary Raging Grannies, revised in July 2020 in response to the UCP passing a vaguely worded bill banning protest in public and private spaces.  It was first written in April 1999 in response to government pronouncements that the Opposition serves no purpose, and teachers may lose their right to strike.  It was first revised in March 2015 for a rally against Bill C-51, Harper’s secret police bill. 

Join us now, as we walk

People can do more than talk

And we can march together

Facing down our fear

Raise our voices loud and clear

Equal treatment would be fair

No more feeling we’re in err

And we can march together

Facing down our fear

Raise our voices loud and clear

And we can march together

Facing down our fear

Raise our voices loud and clear

We want safety, we want honour

We will not wait any longer

But we can march together

Facing down our fear

Raise our voices loud and clear

So pay us heed, listen to us

People power is tre-mend-ous

And we can march together

Facing down our fear

Raise our voices loud and clear.

Author: Kelowna Raging Grannies 2001; Calgary Raging Grannies 2018

Date Last Used by YYC Grannies:  2018

Copyright: None

Look out! ’Cause we are growing bolder!
We’re gaining strength as we grow older!
Our steps they might be slow,
And ’though our boobs are hanging low,
We are Raging Grannies strong!

It’s equity we’re raging for today.
Billionaires get richer while we struggle for fair pay.
While people sleep on sidewalks, Grannies seek another way…
We are Raging Grannies strong!

Look out! ’Cause we are growing bolder!
We’re gaining strength as we grow older!
You can throw us into jail, but by our numbers we’ll prevail.
We are Raging Grannies strong!

They tell us that the Trade Deal is a benefit for all
But corp’rate power always trumps the rights of one and all.
With loss of jobs and secret courts, it’s such a lousy call..
So spread the word it’s wrong.

Climate change is here to stay; it’s hot as hell today!
In other places, homes and farms are being washed away.
Glaciers melt and oceans rise… disasters every day…
And the poor are the first to pay.

Anyone can buy a gun; they’re easy to obtain;
Children get their hands on them, they think it’s just a game.
We’ve got to fight the NRA, they really are insane.
We are Raging Grannies strong!

Author: UnCon Grannies; Vicki Ryder

Date Last Used by YYC Grannies:  2016

Copyright: None

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

There’s a new chain fence where the corporations meet

Don’t fence us out

The agenda is secret and governments seem weak ( 2  beats )

Don’t fence us out.

We’re asking why the secrets, why the stark abuse of power,

We’re wanting information and we’ll sit here by the hour,

Democracy demands that all of us get equal power,

Don’t fence us out.

Just let us in to discover and to question and to share,

Don’t keep us out by refusing and by using all the police that you dare.

Just let us in so that people can all participate

Profit, forcer and speed and greed all can wait

We won’t allow the FTA to seal our fate

Don’t fence us out.

Revised by Calgary Grannies  April 2002