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SAVE OUR PRISON FARMS SONG 2 – LITTLE TINY BRAINS (TUNE: Do Your Ears Hang Low?)

Rose — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:18:39 +0000

Little tiny brains (waggle heads fetchingly back & forth)
In the federal government
They wobble to and fro
Where ‘ere they’re sent
When they sell our farms
They are showing their
LITTLE TINY BRAINS (Lightly cuff head unbelievingly)
2)
The Correctional Service
Says they’re saving dough
When they sell our famrs
But this ain’t so
The cost goes up
In society
due to TINY BRAINS!
(SING first verse again)
3) Stupid sat with dumb
And they both asked how
Can we show we’re doing something?
‘Hey! Let’s sell the cows.
At promotion time
They’ll remember us!”
LITTLE TINY BRAINS!
(REPEAT FIRST VERSE)

SAVE OUR PRISON FARMS SONG 1 (DEEP IN THE HEART OF KINGSTON) Tune: Deep In The Heart of Texas

Rose — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:10:43 +0000

1) They’re shutting down
Our prison farms
Deep in the heart of Kingston (clap-clap-clap)
Greedy idiots
Doing harm
Deep in the heart of Kingston (clap-clap-clap)
2) The heart of Kingston
Reaches out (clap-clap-clap)
To prison farms
around us (clap-clap-clap)
Keep all the cows
Yes, keep the lot
This is the word from Kingston! (clap-clap-clap)
*Make up your own verses – it’s easy!

3 STOOGES & BP OIL (Tune: White Sports Coat & Pink Carnation) – Pratfalls In The Oil Biz

Rose — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:06:44 +0000

(Tune: White Sports Coat & A Pink Carnation)
by Rose DeShaw
The Three
Stooges
and BP Oil
Trussed us all up
For their dance
The three
Stooges
Pratfall with BP
Eye gouge with
Right wing rants.
Once they told us
Long ago
They were going green
You know
Now they changed their mind
It seems
Not a money-making scheme
The Three
Stooges
Drilled a hole too deep there
And now they all say:
‘Oooops!’
2) The Three
Stooges
Fiddling with
Our ocean
They screwed it up
Noody checked
On their credentials
It’s too late now
They’ve had other toxic sites
In Alaska what a blight
Gulls and seals, lying dead
“It is not our fault,” they said
The Three Stooges
Understand the pratfall:
“For this blame SOMEONE ELSE!”
3) The 3
Stooges
Larry, Moe
and Curley,
Known here by
Different names
Haliburton, Transocean & BP
We know they’re
All the same
“Oh it’s not our fault,”
They cry.
“We were just there,
standing by,
When somebody drilled a hole,
Who it was we still don’t know -
The 3 Stooges
Larry, Moe and Curley
Give us their oil dance.

GAZA TZENA SONG

Rose — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:44:48 +0000

Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza
O your troubles are
Too big for me
Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza
So I’ll close my ears
And shut my eyes
Gaza, Gaza, dance instead
No bombs are falling
La, La, La I cannot hear
my fingers in my ear!

Gaza, Gaza, with my eyes shut
One, two, three, four,
No one dying anymore
Gaza, Gaza, won’t it mend
If I pretend?
Gaza, Gaza, Gaza!

Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza
Take away this blindness
From my eyes
Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza,
Help me clearly see
What is disguised

Gaza, Gaza, join with every nation
Let us sit with contemplation
Till at last no bombs are falling
Nothing more to fear

Gaza, Gaza, we are trying
One, two, three, four
Keep the children here from dying
Gaza, Gaza,
Our heart’s crying
Gaza, Gaza, Gaza!
(repeat verses)

GAZA THE ANCIENT PLACE

Rose — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:35:37 +0000

I wrote this song last April when grandmothers I knew were tryng to get to Gaza. There are several more.

Posted: 04/29/09 Author: Rose DeShaw
Tune: The Water Is Wide (Old English Folk)

1)The Gaza Strip
is in the news
The push is on,
to make us choose
We have to say,
we choose the young
From every place
this war goes on

2) And we choose peace,
diplomacy
Cease fire and talk
Till all agree
The truth we know
is larger than
The chill of hate
The wrongs of man

3) The Gaza Strip’s
An acient place
A marker for
The human race
Its name is in
Our holy books
A place on which
The whole world looks

4) No war is worth
A child’s death
We say with every
Tongue and breath
And here on Gaza
Where we stand
Let killing cease
Within this land

50 Ways To Leave Our HARPER!

Rose — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:01:09 +0000

“The problem is all inside the Hill,” she said to me
The answer is easy if you take it logically
Michelle Jean can help in our struggle to be free
There must be 50 ways to leave our HARPER!
It’s true, it’s really not our habit to intrude
Futhermore the message mustn’t be lost or misconstrued
But I’ll repeat at the risk of being crude
There must be 50 ways to leave our HARPER
50 ways to leave our HARPER!
You just put him out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Just listen to me
Put him on the bus, Gus
Don’t need to discuss much
Have him drop off the key, see
Get ourselves free
Oh put him out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don’t need to be coy, Roy
Just listen to me
Put him on the bus, Gus
Don’t need to discuss much
Have him drop off the key, see
Set ourselves free
O it grieves us to see our country in such pain
Isn’t there something we could do to make us smile again
We said we appreciate that and would you please explain
About the 50 ways
We shouldn’t just sleep on it tonight
It’s morning now, we begin to see the light
Watch out for kissing up, it makes us see that this was probably right
There must be 50 ways to leave our HARPER
50 ways to leave our HARPER!
Just put him out the back, Jack
Make a new plan Stan, etc

How PTSD Works – YOU can handle it!

Rose — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:42:38 +0000

HOW PTSD WORKS – You Can Handle It
(From years of personal experience)

(Tune: They Call The Wind, Moriah)
1) Horror’s picked itself a name
Though it’s been around for ages
Post Trauma Stress Disorder is
Our label for the rages
But it’s normal
It’s normal
When you understand, it’s normal

2)A crisis situation calls
For you to start reacting
When trauma comes
Emotions get
All mixed up in the action
Adrenaline
Adrenaline
Its surge, the biggest faction

3) The body does what bodies do
When they’re in stress and combat
It shoots the energy through you
To give you strength to do it
The body
The body
PTSD’s the body

4) What happens when you’re under stress
You finally learn to figure
And what events you should avoid
Because they’ll be a trigger
You’ll see them
The stressors
Understanding will get bigger

5) There is no shame in readying
To fight a major battle
When all around you, no one else
Has even heard a rattle.
No guilty
Reactions
You learn to handle surges

6) Not just soldiers home from war
But mothers, drivers, family
The beast’s inside us all but we
Can learn to tame it readily
We’re in charge
We’re in charge
Taming the beast will happen