PROTEST * SONGS
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āExtinction
Rebellion PROTEST * SONGS |
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| Ban-the-Bomb era
"Merry Minuet" 60 years on |
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| 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 |
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| How High's
the Vai, Tinana? |
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 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 |
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| The Canary Song |
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 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 |
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| Vietnam War
era "Fixing-to-die Rag" 50 years on |
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| 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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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| We
Don't Need Another Hero |
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| 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