(Google this tune on youtube – very singable)
Tune: Dwelling In Beulah Land (Old Gospel)

1) I admit I can’t control
The life I have been living
But a Higher Power exists
To take my life in hand.
Admitting I am helpless here,
I look for strength to go on.
As the universe unfolds,
I learn to stand.
CHORUS I’ve living every day now
As though it was my first one
I’m listening to the others
Who share this life with me
And I am making my amends now
To those I have been hurting
Finding hope, finding peace, today.
2) Day by day I walk the path
That’s given me to travel
But no longer fast asleep
My eyes are open wide
With my Higher Power’s help
And quiet meditation
Fear and worry can no longer, overcome.
CHORUS
3) All the ones who’ve walked before me,
whisper to my spirit.
Though alone, I feel them near
supporting on the way.
I have a right to be here
like the trees and stars around me
In this complicated world
I find my home.
CHORUS

When a bill is one hundred pages or more
You have a funny feeling that what it is for
Is to keep you from reading the contents of it
Because if you knew them, you might throw a fit
Tra la la , tweedle dee dee
It gives us a chill
When a bill is so packed full it threatens to spill
Its contents all over those least fit to cope
And she who protests it is labeled a dope

2) When Canada’s crime stats are growing quite low
And a bill comes along that says this isn’t so
Then we’re full of suspicion, it’s throwing us back
To where the U.S. has abandoned that track
Tra la la, tweedle dee dee
We know more about crime
Than we did in the days of our grandparent’s time
We can help some and keep some
from offending again
Not just dump them all into one big prison den

3) So let’s take some time out and study this thing
Which is why we’ve come out here to talk and to sing
We’re wary of bills that are switfly passed through
Without contributiions from me and from you
Tra la la, tweedle dee dee
Let’s look at expense
This will cost our province
It doesn’t make sense
Let’s tell Stephen Harper
C-10 is a NO!
And have an election where Tories will Go!

SONG 2
Tune: Istanbul Not Constantinople
Just the chorus (an EASY & funny tune on youtube)
/watch?v=vankeSifSr0 or just google it on Youtube

Bill C-10 is UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Unwise, unjust and unconstitutional
Then why will our PM push it through?
Because HE’S not heard complaint from me and you!

2) Bill C-10 is just like an omnibus
Whole bunch of other bills sneaking quickly past us
All the way from immigrants to petty crime
Our PM plans to sneak it past this time!

3) Write your MP – tell him what you think of this
Stop Bill C-10 till it’s fully been explained to us
We know how to really make a ghastly fuss
Let’s show him that he can’t do this to US!

SONG 3
Tune: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria

From the Sound of Music

How do we get a public groundswell going?
How do we stop a bill and bring it down?
How do we show its many faults to others?
We talk it up clear
We tell what we fear
We frown!
Many a thing we have to say about it
Many a thing you need to understand
So google C-10 today
And tell your MP NO WAY!
So many will be ruined by this plan
How do we solve a problem like this crime bill?
If we fight we’ll defeat it yes you & I sure can!

Rose DeShaw, Nov 22/11

Get, get, get, get
Get that info clear
Tell me darling
Before a baby’s here
You will support us
Sort it out with me
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoaaaaa!

Yes we need them
Yes, we really need them
Please let them be around
When we’re getting knocked up
Before everything is cocked up
Just give them a chance!
IMITATE SAX SOLO HERE – DANCE. Snap Fingers
Come, come, come, come
Come into my head
Tell me darling
That you’ve really read
Their ad-vice, darling
Come and go with me
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoaaaaa

Just give them a chance!

I love life darling
Don’t you see?
Plan for a baby
And we’ll be
Happier always
Come & go with me

Come see them with me
Baby, no baby, baby, no baby
Ba-be, no baby
Come see them with me
Baby, no baby
Come on, go with me!
(see link for original youtube video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aemCeo9-Vzg You can access it directly at the bottom of my ‘links’ column on the right hand side. It is under Youtube videos, (alphabetically). Just click & it will take you right to the video.

Now I’ll see if I can add the sheet music here. Nope. It’s a PDF file. Any ideas about how to do this, please let me know.
This is my dear husband who is on the far right in the video in this great shirt I got him just before Christmas which looks as though it had tiny imbedded totem poles in the fabric.
More later. Go see the video, eh? (You’ll note I cut out, ‘Big fat Tory hands’ as many Tories DO support the CBC and don’t deserve the ridicule.

Eric Folsom’s Poet Laur-e-ate
Eric Folsom’s Kingston’s Laureate
Eric Folsom’s Poet Laureate
Well ain’t that too damn good!
v.1) His verse is supple as a rubber book
His metaphors call for another look
His writing poetry is not forsook
Well ain’t that too damn good!
v.2) Folsom’s always chewed ideas well
Spit ‘em out in books and watched ‘em sell
What he’ll do no one can ever tell
Well ain’t that too damn good!

Gonna build the Great Cataraqui Trail
Down by the riverside
From Kingston to Smiths Falls
Despite setbacks & stalls
Gonna build the Great Cataraqui Trail
Down by the riverside
And I’ll walk its length someday!
Won’t let politics get me down
I’ll make Wellington go around
Oh, I’ll walk that trail someday
Ain’t nobody stoppin’ it now
We’ll get her built somehow
Down by the riverside.
(Easy to add other verses)

You must remember this

Our waterfront is bliss

When we can use it all

Not covered with cement and buildings

Time’s going by

There’s wrecks down there from old ships

Beauty abounds – some real pips!

A trail coming nigh

Could be a lovely thing but listen –

Time’s going by

The Wellington Extension

Deserves a special mention

A way to make dreams die

Our waterfront could bring us joy, dear

Or only sighs

Traffic and roadways

Go quickly out of date

We keep our park – oh

It still is not too late

Let’s solve this old old story

Not end up saying, ‘sorry.

Our dreams are at an end.’

The world won’t miss another highway

Time’s going by