Rrraging
Grrrrannies of
Grrreater Westerly
401-596-5712, 860-535-9029
The first “Raging Grannies” errr…sprouted…in 1986 in Victoria, BC, to sing satirical songs protesting nukes, militarism,
racism, clear-cut logging, and corporate greed. There are now more than 60 gaggles of grannies throughout Canada,
Europe, and the United States. Sing out your outrage with a sense of humor and a commitment to nonviolence.
Gender, age, and musicianship optional. One hour plus one performance per month. Watch for sightings. Join us!
Grrrramps too.
(Side by Side, Bb/Bb)
OH WE'RE A GAGGLE OF GRANNIES
Urging you off of your fannies:
We're raising our voice
We want a new choice-NO MORE WAR!
With the starving wages they're paying
To workers sweating and slaving,
The owners all thrive
Can workers survive?
NO MORE WAR!
(Camptown Races, C/G)
WE'RE THE RAGING GRANNIES
Singing our songs,
DOO - DAH, DOO - DAH
We're the Raging Grannies
singing our songs,
all the doo-dah day.
GONNA ROAR ALL NIGHT
GONNA RAGE ALL DAY,
Build a better world, we say
Let's make a start today.
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Whether it's bin Laden
Or Saddam Hussein
War is not the answer
BOMBS JUST KILL AND MAIM!
Over 600,000 Iraqi grandparents, parents and
children killed since March 2003, not to mention a
million or so during sanctions in the 1990s.
(Bb/F)
There's no business like war business,
The best business we know.
Never mind the homeless and the hungry
Never mind the people without jobs,
Nowhere can you get that special feeling
like when you're piling up the bombs!
There's no business like war business,
The best business we know.
Sixty seconds spending is a lot of bucks
-it seems a lot, but golly shucks;
same amount buys food and clothes
for all the world, all over the world!
Sooooo, join this gaggle of Grannies.
Get up off of your fannies!
We're telling you now
We're angry and how! NO MORE WAR!
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We mean precisely--NO MORE WAR!
We'll say it nicely--NO MORE WAR!
We really mean it --NO MORE WAR!
@$12,000 per second! Mainstream media says 100s of
Billions. Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz says 3 Trillion.
Center for Defense Info. Says $670 billion…and counting.
(Frere Jacques, C/G)
100s of BILLIONs, maybe 3 TRILLION,
What a waste! What a waste!
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Reinstate some sanity,
Turn it to humanity
Work for Peace! Work for Peace!
(Saints Go Marchin’ In, C/G)
WHEN WE MAKE PEACE INSTEAD OF WAR,
When we make Peace instead of War,
How I want to be in that number, when we make
Peace Instead of War.
(When all the World has Human Rights…..
When Justice rules instead of Bombs….)
3
Vote in November, Vote in November,
Clear the slate, We're IRATE!
No more sleazy tax breaks.
No more lies and mistakes.
Bring them back from Iraq.
(Granny Maureen lyrics)
4
(You Are My Sunshine, C / G)
WE HAVE JUST ONE WORLD
Yes, only ONE world
Complete with sunshine, wind and rain
With ancient forests
And clear blue oceans
And living streams and fields of grain.
We have just one world
Yes, only ONE world
With purple mountains
And fruited plain…
And when we soil it
Pollute and spoil it
We’ll never get that one world again.
8
No parent with a child to raise
No workers in their prime
Let no one with a life to live
be dead before their time.
Falderie...etc
be dead before their time!
6
(lyrics by Marlies Parent)
(I love to go a-wandering..G/D.)
WHEN WE SEND PEOPLE OFF TO WAR,
why risk the young ones’ lives?
Let's vote that those who go to war
at least be 55.
Falderie, falderal, falderie
faldera-ha-ha-ha...
at least be 55!
Our leaders would save lots of cash
on pensions, pills and more-They'd keep down all that health care cost and lose
their taste for war.
Falderie... etc
and lose their taste for war!!
(Spoken echo: Especially when their number’s up!)
(Lyrics by Granny Marlies!)
TERROR is fear-mongering, a way to control the
people. Americans have more chance of being killed by
lightning than by a terrorist.
America, America
(All Thru the Night, D/D)
Lives were lost, a country damaged…
TERROR UNFURLED
Revenge and blame will never get us
PEACE IN THE WORLD
While the nations grieve in sorrow
Together we will face tomorrow
Combine our strength and we will call for
PEACE IN THE WORLD
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Let us work with determination. . . .
PEACE IN THE WORLD
Tell our leaders and our nations
PEACE IN THE WORLD
We need faith and trust and kindness
NO MORE FIGHTING, NO MORE BLINDNESS
Justice is a goal we strive for:
PEACE IN THE WORLD
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(America the Beautiful, G/D)
Let's all complain of George's reign, where freedom is no more,
Where unemployment rises and the poor folks get more poor.
America, America, You're losing all your friends,
You're killing more in this grim war to further corporate ends.
Oh how disgraced by fascist waste, by rampant corporate greed,
by putting folks in jeopardy for what they think or read.
America, America, oh how we weep for thee. It's time to take
the White House back right now through you and me.
Oh dutiful, for specious guise, for Rambo ways of gain,
For superpower travesties, our corporate world of shame,
America, America, God shed some light on thee:
Thy goodness share, humanely care, for true security!
Oh let us wail for schools that fail, for kids in poverty,
for no health care, or safety net, and loss of liberty!
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America, America, you’re lost down this wrong track.
Come stand today and shout "NO WAY" & take our country back
(rochesterraginggrannies + Granny Jane)
PEACE, SALAAM, SHALOM