Hoosier Raging Grannies

What Do We Want from Obama?

(Tune: “99 Bottles of Beer”)

Lyrics by Vicki Ryder and the NYC Grans

What do we want from Obama,

The man we’d like to love?

We’re here to tell you what we wrote

To him on change-dot-gov:

We want our troops brought home real quick,

And all the wars to cease,

‘Cause bombs and occupation

Are not the way to peace.

We want fair and equal treatment

For folks both straight and gay,

And an end to corporate bailouts…

Those with the most should pay!

We want single-payer health care,

Or else you’ll hear us rage,

And jobs that stay right here at home

And pay a living wage.

We want our civil liberties

(We wonder where they went?)

Don’t label folks as terrorists

When they choose to dissent.

This country must stop torture

For justice to prevail.

To teach the world how wrong it is -

Put Cheney and Bush in jail.

Now you know what we want, Obama.

If you want the Grannies’ love,

You’ll make these changes that we sent

To you on change-dot-gov.

(Yes, you’ll make these changes that we sent

To you on change-dot-gov.)

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Obama We Don’t Need This War

(tune: It Ain’t Necessarily So lyrics by Shirley Wittman NYC Metro R.G.)

Obama, we don’t need the war
We don’t want the war anymore
We told our last leader
But he was a cheater:
“We don’t want the war anymore”

Obama, get out of Iraq
Get out and don’t ever go back!
We’re glad you’re elected
And now you’re expected
To pull out the troops from Iraq

Obama we send you this song
It’s not that you’ll never go wrong
But we must remind you
That we stand behind you
Just pull out where we don’t belong

More fighting in Afghanistan
Is part of the same lousy plan
Civilians are dying
In this war you’re buying
Obama, we need a new plan
Obama We Don’t Need This War

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Granny Shirly from the e-vine contributed this:

Obama, We Don’t Need the War
(Tune: “It Ain’t Necessarily So”)
Lyrics by Shirley Littman of the NYC Metro Raging Grannies

Obama, we don’t need the war.
We don’t want the war anymore.
We told our last leader,
But he was a cheater :
“We don’t want the war anymore.”

Obama, get out of Iraq.
Get out and don’t ever go back!
We’re glad you’re elected ,
And now you’re expected,
To pull out the troops from Iraq.

Obama we send you this song,
It’s not that you’ll never go wrong.
But we must remind you,
That we stand behind you,
Just pull out where we don’t belong!

Granny Nora added:

Kudos to Shirley for coming up with this right on time! It occurred to me that we also need to address the Afghanistan issue, since Obama has repeatedly said he believes that we need to redouble our efforts there, to “catch” Osama bin Laden. So here is another verse to the same song:

More fighting in Afghanistan
Is part of the same lousy plan
Civilians are dying
In this war you’re buying
Obama, we need a new plan

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FYI: The granny e-vine has sent a message to all USA raging grannies asking if there is interest in an effort to show our faces at the Presidential inauguration on January 20th. This is something to be discussed at the next meeting, and a response can be made to the evine after that point. Granny Vicki (an evine coordinator) is offering to do the organizing if there are enough U.S. raging grannies wanting to participate.

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