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| The rate of suicide among
NZ teenagers has risen by 38% in the last 12 months. Stuff 26 Aug 2019. If we were coal miners, we would be up to our knees in dead canaries. Michael Higgins, President of Ireland.  D You’ve got ten thousand aircraft flights to take you where you please You’ve C got ten million motor cars to fill your lives with ease, You've a F billion head of cattle to give you beef and cheese And a G trillion tons of nightmare gases floating in the breeze! But F no can-D-aries, there’s F no can-D-aries, where’s F your can-D-aries? 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 Plant a million, plant a billion, plant a hundred billion trees! For your canaries, there’s no canaries, where’s your canaries? Can’t you see the dead canaries piling right up to your knees Dump your cows and cars and aeroplanes come plant a thousand trees Plant a million, plant a billion, plant a hundred billion trees Please listen to your children, oh listen to us please! We’re all canaries ( one child crumples) Just small canaries (as more fall to the gound) We’re - all - canaries - down - your - coal - mine (the last child falls) This is my very poor version of the song. I'm waiting for someone to send me a really good recording of it. Email me. |
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Published on Folksong.org.nz in October 2019