Hoosier Raging Grannies

WorldPeace is Marching On

(Tune)BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

My ears can hear it coming-
It’s the rising cry for peace.
It is growing, swelling, spreading.
Let the talk of warfare cease.
In the place of  hate and violence
Let the way of love increase.
The truth is marching on.
Glory,glory,hallelujah!(3times)
Word peace is marching on.
We have tried the way of violence-
Let us try the way of love.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked,
Tame the hawk and send the dove.
With our sisters and our brothers
Join to overcome with love.
Worldpeace is marching on.

 

Study War No More

Gonna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside
Gonna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside
Ain’t gonna study war no more.

chorus

Ain’t gonna study war no more( x 6)
…..

Gonna bring all our soldiers back  

 Back from Colombia, back from Colombia,  back from Colombia.

Gonna bring all our soldiers back.    Back from Colombia.   

Gonna study war no more.

 Repeat chorus

Gonna join hands around the world                                                                   

Down by the riverside
Down by the riverside 

 Down by the riverside                                                                                             

Gonna join hands around the world                                                                   

Down by the riverside                                                                                             

Gonna study war no more

 

(thanks to San Jose Raging Grannies for these next two)

 Please Tell America (tune: God Bless America)

 Please tell America

War can’t succeed

Stand beside her and guide her

From this fight with the wisdom she needs

Stop the bombing, stop the missiles

Tell the soldiers not to roam

Please tell America

Bring our troops home

Please tell America

Bring our troops home

 

 America We Weep for Thee  (tune:America the Beautiful)

 O beautiful for bomb free skies

For amber waves of grain

How can we on defenseless lands

Our bombs and terror rain (reign?)

America,America  oh how we weep for thee

For once you stood for sisterhood,

Across both land and sea.

 

Oh beautiful for immigrants

Who gave here of their best

Who built our future

Found our homes

Across the wilderness

America,America  oh how we weep for thee.

For once you stood for principles

For justice and for peace.

 

 Military spending

(Frere Jacques tune)Sung as a round 

Military spending, taxes unending

What a waste, what a waste

Reinstate some sanity, turn it to humanity

No more war, No more war

 Alternate lyrics (frère Jacques tune)

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping

Uncle Sam, Uncle Sam

Anti war bells ringing,

Hear the people singing

Work for peace, Work for peace

 

Peace 2 Peace

From Seattle Raging Grannies website

Peace, peace, peace, peace.
Wars must end and wars must cease.
We must learn to live together.
Peace, peace, peace.

Peace, peace, peace, peace.
Make homelessness and hunger cease.
We must learn to live together.
Peace, peace, peace.

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Hoosier Raging Grannies will appear at the Sample Gates  at noon on October 11 to support the following action.  Please join us and support this effort.

Growing a Movement to Combat U.S. Militarism in Latin America

National Day of Action: October 11

Objectives:
1. Cancel the threatening and unneccessary U.S. military exercises in Costa Rica.
2. Close the School of Americas (now Western Hemispherre Institute for Security Cooperation.)
3. End U.S. military presence on bases in Colombia, Honduras, Guantanamo, and elsewhere in hemisphere.
4. End the Mirida Initiative and the increase militarization of the U.S. border with Mexico.
5. Support Rep. Barney Frank’s proposal to reduce the social debt by cutting the U.S. military budget immediately by 25%.

 

Slogans & Chants

 

 

 (from www.lasolidarity.org )

No a la militarizacion, si a la educacion

If War Is The Answer We’re Asking The Wrong Question

Killing Innocent People Is The Problem, Not The Solution

From Colombia to the Middle East, We demand justice, we demand peace

“Africa, Latino, Arab, Asian and white…no more no more of this racist war, defend our human rights”

The people united will never be defeated…El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido

What do we want? U.S. Out! When do we want it? Now!

The people of the world are under attack, Out of Colombia! Hands off Iraq!

There ain’t no power like the of the people, ‘Cause the power of the people don’t stop.

NAFTA/CAFTA/FREE TRADE

NAFTA, CAFTA, Why do we HAFTA?

CAFTA means hunger, CAFTA means violence

We know the truth and we won’t be silenced!

Stop the War, Stop the War Against the Poor! (say what?)

Stop the War, Stop the War Against the Poor!

Call and response:

Call:

Creating more poverty, Do we HAFTA?

Response:

No, no, no! We don’t want your CAFTA!

Other Calls:

Privatizing water, Do we HAFTA…….. Destroying small farmers……

Destroying small businesses…….. Even more sweatshops……..

More union busting……. Less biodiversity……..

More expensive medicines…. More corporate welfare…..

No more sovereignty……. Loss of local control……

More migration….. More rural poverty…….

Corporate domination….. Poorer women……

Privatizing healthcare…… Privatizing education……

Privatizing telephones……. More deaths on the border…….

TLC es exactamente como yo sabía

Solo beneficia la oligarquía

TLC es exactamente como yo sabía

Nos va a joder la mayoría

No queremos y no nos da la gana, ser una colonia norteamerica

Pero si queremos, y si nos la da gana ser Centroamerica libre y soberana!

 

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Doo dah for the trees by cyndi roberts

Tune: Camptown Races

We’re the raging grannies singin’ our song

Doo dah doo dah

The clearcut in Yellowwood  is all wrong

Oh, doo dah day.

 Chorus:

Let the trees stand tall

Don’t ya make them fall    (or please don’t make….)

Mother Earth will pay you well

If you just don’t sell.

 

Let’s tell Seifert where we stand

Doo dah doo dah

We stand with the trees that grow on this land

All The doo dah day.

 Repeat chorus 

           TAKE ME OUT TO THE CLEARCUT

           Author: Victoria Grannies Adapted by Hoosier Grannies

            Tune: Take Me Out to the Ballgame

 

• TAKE ME OUT TO THE CLEARCUT
  THE TIMBER’S BEEN TIDIED AWAY.
  IT’S BEEN SOLD DOWN THE STREAM
  IN A BUSINESS MAN’S DREAM.
  IT’S HELL TO STAND HERE
  IN A LANDSCAPE SO CLEAN.
  SO SHUT DOWN YOUR CHAIN SAWS AND DOZERS
  TELL D.N.R. TO GO HOME
• FOR THE SQUIRRELS AND THE TREES
• AND THE BIRDS AND THE BEES
• LEAVE YELLOWWOOD FOREST ALONE

 

• Author: Marcy Matasick, Albuquerque Raging Grannies
• Tune: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
• modified by Hoosier grannies.

Where have all the trees gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the trees gone?
Long time ago?
Where have all the trees gone?
Killed by  clearcuts everywhere
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

Where are all the living things?
Long time passing
Where are all the living things?
Long time ago?
Where are all the living things?
Cooked by global warming
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

How will planet earth survive
This destruction?
How will planet earth survive
Such callous greed?
How will planet earth survive?
Profits matter more than lives
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

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To the tune of Side by Side

By Grannies Cyndi and Glenda

Oh, we’re just a gaggle of– grannies

Urging you off of your– fannies.

So give up some dough

For  your  radio show

WFHB.                                      

 

 

No need for corporate –donors

When we ourselves are the –owners.

Give money now.                      

They’ll love you and how

Community radio

 

 Bridge:         

They won’t need to follow

That darned ole corporate sham

If you out there don’t dawdle—

  Just reach into your savings …

Put ‘em in your budget …

Rattle, rattle,  thank you ma’am

 

So make it part of your ration

To ‘pony up for this station’

Give them some money

We’re tellin’ you sonny.

91 point 3

 

They will take credit

You can even use debit

WFHB!

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