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

Monday June 21st, 2010 in Songs, Songs - Also see Raging Gran Songsite

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 [...]

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

Thursday June 3rd, 2010 in Politics, Songs, Songs - Also see Raging Gran Songsite

(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 [...]

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GAZA TZENA SONG

Wednesday June 2nd, 2010 in Songs, Songs - Also see Raging Gran Songsite

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 [...]

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GAZA THE ANCIENT PLACE

Wednesday June 2nd, 2010 in Politics, Songs, Songs - Also see Raging Gran Songsite

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 [...]

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Song for Anti-Privatizing

Thursday March 11th, 2010 in NOTES, Songs

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 [...]

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FIXING THE VOTE – Beatle’s Tune: I’m Fixing A Hole

Thursday January 14th, 2010 in Songs

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 [...]

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SWEET MICHELLE JEAN (Tune: Sweet Caroline)

Saturday January 9th, 2010 in Songs

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 [...]

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50 Ways To Leave Our HARPER!

Saturday January 9th, 2010 in Songs, Songs - Also see Raging Gran Songsite

“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 [...]

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Not A Time For Daydreaming (tune: Daydream Believer)

Sunday January 3rd, 2010 in Songs

  Oh they called it ‘prorogue ”Cause we might not know that word Our government’s skedaddled from the hill They won’t work but they’ll get paid Leave behind the mess they made Democracy is dying in the north CHORUS Oh Oh, Michaelle Jean What about this scene? It’s time you used your muscle from the [...]

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2 Songs about Harper Proroguing Parliament

Sunday January 3rd, 2010 in Politics, Songs

1)Tune: Done stayed around…this ol’ town too long It wasn’t much of a government But it was all we had It was all we had, boys, It was all we had And now it’s gone on holidays (That Harper’s quite the lad) And we’ve got no parliament to carry on! CHORUS Done kept this kind [...]

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