Tag: Vicki Ryder
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Not Just About Bathrooms
Tune (roughly): The Man on the Flying Trapeze By Vicky Ryder and Jo-Hanna Read They lie through their teeth with the greatest of ease, Those bigots who’d bring us all down to our knees; We’ve got…
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We Rage to End All War, Updated to Include Syria
Tune: Battle Hymn of the RepublicAuthors: Kathy Russell, Sunny Armer (revision of song by Vicki Ryder) We're the Raging Grannies and we're here to take a standAgainst the senseless killing raging in Afghanistan,Iraq is still a…
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The War Economy part 2
Author: Vicki RyderTune: Battle Hymn of the Republic There’s coal ash, pipelines, fracking, and there’s filling off our shores,And toxic waste gets dumped upon the people who are poor.The profited will kill us if we don’t…
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The War Economy & The Poor People’s Campaign
Author: Vicki RyderTune: Battle Hymn of the Republic We’re rising in Seattle now and joining the campaign,A task that wasn’t finished when Rev’rend King was slain.Fifty years have come and gone but still his words ring…
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Radical Environmentalists-Coal
By Kay Thode, Vicki Ryder, Carolyn Powers, Laurie RostholderTune: Coming Round the Mountain Oh, we’re radical environmentalists.We’re radical environmentalists,No more coal should be mined, (no break)And the coal plants shut not fined, (pause)We’re radical environmentalists. Oh,…
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The Poor Peoples Campaign: A Moral Revival
By Vicki RyderTune: Acres of Clams There’s something that’s troubling the grannies.We toss and we turn late at night.Wond’rin why there are so many hungryIn a land that’s so rich, that ain’t right (spoken!) CHORUSIt’s time…
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Gun Reform
Tune: Bella CiaoBy Vicki Ryder Too many dying / and families crying,We need to rein in the guns and do itNow! Now! Now!We’re gonna build a better futureAnd we’re gonna start right now. We all bewail…
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Stop This Nomination
(Tune: “There is a Tavern in the Town”) Lyrics by Vicki Ryder © for the Raging Grannies There was a time in days of old [days of old] When justice mattered, so we’re told [so we’re…
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Get Out and Vote
tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean lyrics: Peggy Dempsey & Vicki Ryder(Rochester, NY) Last night some new thoughts did surround me When thinking of heroies of old, What they fought for does really astound me,…
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Don’t Buy Eden Foods
tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic Lyrics: Vicki Ryder We’re the Raging Grannies and we’ve come out here to say; Save your hard-earned bucks and don’t buy Eden Foods today, ‘Cause they’ve joined with Hobby Lobby…