Yesterday a woman came into the Credit Union where I work and told me she was drawing out enough money to buy back a cow which had been sold by our Federal Corrections when they made the monumentally stupid decision to close down the effective and efficient local prison farms.
I rushed right home and [...]

Raised by two people extremely critical of everyone around us, I absorbed judging others with my mother’s milk. Then I hung around unkind, unloving, critical people and my goose sizzled. No love going on here.
Look at this shot of an uncritical person trying to look judgemental. This is what your face looks like when [...]

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) [...]

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!

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(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 [...]

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, [...]

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) [...]

Woke up yesterday to read about cutbacks for Daycare and seniors The folks they figure who won’t speak up. We’ve GOT to let them know they can’t do this stuff.Let’s keep the whole world from becoming just one vast corporation, eh? Or at least postpone it awhile.
Below is a song to a familiar tuen [...]

My friend the poet Kemeny Babineau wrote this:
  
Fixing the Vote
I’m fixing a hole where the votes get out
And stop majority from forming
So I prorogue
 I’m filling the cracks from coast to coast
That kept majority from forming
So I prorogue
And it really doesn’t matter if I’m wrong
I’m right where I prorogue
I’m right where I prorogue
See the people standing [...]

Since Steve began
He’s had a goodby callin’
We can all see
He’s goin’ WRONG
Bad in the spring
Soldiers were dyin’
Who’d have believed you’d
Let him last so long?
Sweet Michelle Jean
We know that you could
Shut down this fool
We believed you always would
But now we
Look at this blight
They call the Tories
They fill us up
With crap, they do
And though we hurt
Hurtin’ runs off [...]