One Planet Future
It’s Show Time!
GROT’S LULLABY
Rock-a-bye, rock-a-bye, rattle and creak,
Piled very high on the top of a heap.
Keep sweet dreaming until break of day,
When your sweet dreams will all fade away.
Keep sweet dreaming until break of day,
When your sweet dreams will all fade away.
WE’RE HERE TO STAY
Did they think we’d disappear
When they’d had enough of us,
Simply vanish in thin air, go up in a puff of dust?
No, we will never go away; we’re here to stay!
You will find us all around, we are scattered far and wide:
In the streets of every town, in the sea and countryside.
No, we will never go away; we’re here to stay!
Some of us are in disguise,
Hiding in the water and the food supplies.
Some are plain as plain can be,
Filling up the landfills, floating in the sea.
Rusty metals and bicycles!
Burnt-out kettles and chemicals!
Broken bottles and plastic bags,
Piled sky high on a bed of old rags!
They may throw us in the bin tied up in a plastic sack.
They may flush down the drain,
But we’ll still keep coming back.
No, we will never go away; we’re here to stay,
We’re here to stay, we’re here to stay, we’re here to stay!
CARRY ON AND ON
All made up in glossy plastic
And designed to look fantastic
Stacked up at the supermarket checkout.
Customers came every day
And queued up at the till to pay,
And filled us up with packages to take out.
We were free, they were giving us away.
Nobody could see there’d be a heavy price to pay;
For long after the last customer has gone
Old plastic bags like us will carry on and on.
FAST FOOD
One whopping burger, two large fries,
Three giant pizzas, four jam pies,
Five chilli chickens sittin’ in a row,
Wrap it up, ready to go!
Six bacon butties, seven shakes,
Eight diet colas, nine cream cakes,
Ten hot dogs all sittin’ in a row,
Wrap it up, ready to go!
Fast food, eat around the clock,
Eat ‘til your buttons all go pop!
Stop for a minute ‘cause I wanna know,
Why does fast food make me so slow?
DIRTY ROTTEN DECOMPOSERS
We’re the dirty rotten decomposers;
The natural waste disposers.
We get down to it, mulch it up and chew it.
It’s a dirty rotten job, but someone’s got to do it.
And what grows up must come down,
And the cycle of life goes round and round,
The cycle of life goes round and round.
What grows up must come down,
And the cycle of life goes round and round,
The cycle of life goes round and round.
And it’s really quite a messy process,
When vegetation decomposes,
We purify it, test it out and try it.
It’s a necessary part of our daily diet.
And what grows up must come down,
And the cycle of life goes round and round,
The cycle of life goes round and round.
What grows up must come down,
And the cycle of life goes round and round,
The cycle of life goes round and round.
And round and round and round and round,
And round and round. Yeah!
A DATE WITH MOTHER NATURE
I’m a mover, I’m a shaker,
I’m an engine lubricator,
I’m a wheeler dealer son of a gun. POW!
I’m a hell-fire raiser,
Jack-of-all trader,
I’m a joker, I’m a barrel of fun.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
I can make a lot of trouble,
Overnight my price can double,
And my power is second to none.
I’m a smooth operator,
Catch up with you later,
Got a date with Mother Nature, gotta run!
I’ve got a date with Mother Nature, gotta run!
A BIG WORLD OF NATURE
You, me, don’t just sit, now,
Get up, get on and do our little bit now!
Don’t put off what we can do today,
Because a lot of little bits’ll go a long long way.
Come on everybody, let’s work together,
Do a little bit to make it a better world today,
Because we all know……… that a lot of little bits’ll make
A big world of difference tomorrow.
Watch what we eat, turn down the heat,
Pick up our litter and clean up the street.
……Make a garden, plant a tree,
Grow our own food organically;
Locally grown and fresh,
Yum, yum, that’s best.
Don’t fill the sky…. with aeroplanes,
Why don’t we try going there by train?
…..Leave the car, take a bus, take a bike,
Take a hike: left, right, use our two feet.
Turn off a tap and a light,
Click, click, that’s right.
Come on everybody, let’s work together,
Do a little bit to make it a better world today,
Because we all know….. that a lot of little bits’ll make
A big world of difference tomorrow
CITY GARDEN
Turn your urban spaces into verdant places
A patch of paradise can be so very pretty
Work a little every day and turn this heavy clay
Into a garden in the middle of the city
Vegetables, fruit and herbs
Make your body healthy
Lofty trees and vagrant flowers
Make your spirit wealthy
Turn your urban spaces into verdant places
A patch of paradise can be so very pretty
Work a little every day and turn this heavy clay
Into a garden in the middle of the city
IN THE MOMENT
They say little fish have no memory,
We just live in the moment, then the moment is gone
But I’ll always remember the warm rays of the sun,
And the ripple of raindrops as we darted along.
They say little fish have no feelings,
How can cold-blooded creatures
Know the meaning of love?
But I’ll always remember feeling happy today,
‘Til a big, angry shadow took my sunshine away;
Don’t believe what they say
ONE PLANET FUTURE
No matter how far apart we are,
However different we may be,
We inhabit one living planet
We all share one destiny.
Everyone lives under one sun,
And breathes the same air.
We need food and water,
And shelter and care.
So, everyone get the message
And spread the word everywhere;
We’ve only one planet
And one planet future to share.
And everything living on the land,
And in the sky and sea
Plays a part in nature’s plan
And has a role in history.
Everyone lives under one sun,
And breathes the same air.
We need food and water,
And shelter and care.
So, everyone get the message
And spread the word everywhere;
We’ve only one planet
And one planet future to share.