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Ban-the-Bomb era "Merry Minuet" 60 years on

The whole world is suffering from scoring own goals
Super cyclones in the tropics, heat waves at the poles.
The Amazon is burning, there’s darn-all honey bees
And I eat corn beef and big-block cheese!

But we can be tranquil, and thankful, and proud,
That man has created a greenhouse-shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day
The South Pole will have melted -
and we’ll all just float away! .... MORE


How High's the Vai, Tinana?

How high's the vai, tinana?        
Two feet high and rising
How high's the vai, tamana?
She said it's two feet high and rising
 
Last night the tai nearly came within reach
We've vai māi to drink and don't have much each
We'll have to shift our puaka higher up the beach
Two feet high and rising .... MORE


The Canary Song


You’ve got ten thousand aircraft flights to take you where you please,
You’ve got ten million motor cars to fill your lives with ease,
You've a billion head of cattle to give you beef and cheese
And a trillion tons of nightmare gases floating in the breeze!

But no canaries... where’s your canaries?

Please listen to your children, oh listen to us please
If you were down a coal mine you’d have dead birds to your knees
Dump your cows and cars and aeroplanes -
come plant a thousand trees .... MORE


Vietnam War era "Fixing-to-die Rag" 50 years on

Well, come on all you fine young men
The wrinklies need your help again
Their pension funds are about to crash
And whatever the cost, they need more cash
So put down your books and don’t be a snob
Go get yourself a paying job.

      And it's one, two,  three
      What are we  working for?
      Don't  ask me, I just take the cash
      For making that greenhouse gas.
      And it's  five, six, seven
      Open up the  Pearly Gates
      Well there ain't no time to wonder why
      Whoopee! We're all gonna die .... MORE


God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
A variant of the "merry little H-bomb plane - to blow up
all the Russians
" that was sung at CND protests in the 1960s.

God rest ye merry gentlemen, when ye are safe in bed
The clouds of greenhouse gas you made are spreading overhead
To dehydrate all Islam when the rest of us are dead
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.


We Don't Need Another Hero

Out of the ruins, out from the wreckage
Can't make the same mistakes this time
We are the children, the last generation
We are the ones they left behind
And I wonder when we are ever gonna change?
Living under the fear, till nothing else remains

We don't need another hero,
We don't need to know the way home ....
All we want is life beyond the Thunderdome

Looking for something we can rely on
There's got to be something better out there.
Mmmm, love and compassion, their day is coming
All else are castles built in the air
And I wonder when we are ever gonna change?
Living under the fear, till nothing else remains.

All the children say,
We don't need another hero,
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond the Thunderdome

We don't need another hero,
We don't need to know the way home
All we want is life beyond the Thunderdome


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Published on Folksong.org.nz in October 2019