Tune: Over There
Lyrics: Jo-Hanna Read
Everywhere. Everywhere.
There are feds
In the streets
Everywhere.
They’re all wearing camo,
With tons of ammo
Shooting people,
Gassing up the air.
Everywhere. Everywhere.
Throw a man
In a van
Take him where?
They think they can scare us
With their fascist tactics
We are showing them
We don’t scare
Everywhere.
Oh, we ARE the might empire, We pick and choose our guests,
Europeans welcome here – But Mexicans are pests.
We’re ALL in love with family – The Mexicans who come to work
Must leave their children home.
I HAVE a friend who’s Mexican –She brightens up my day.
She wishes she could visit home – But danger marks the way.
War profiteers such all the cash – And we see that as fine.
A Mex’can crossing the RIO Grande – Is a very serious crime.
Free traders like to build a wall – So only cash gets through.
If all the riches travel north – The people will come too.
Corn used to be a source of life – And rural people thrived.
But now it’s a commodity – We go north to survive.
When YOU exploit your workers
You SAVE a buck or two.
But immigrants are people,
And THEY have feelings, too.
When F AMILES have no healthcare
It’s NOT just their concern;
It HURTS the whole community
When THEY’VE nowhere to turn.
Chorus:
Est-amos trabajando por la justicia,
Queremos beneficios para las familias,
Queremos apoyarles en su buena lucha,
Vivimos todos juntos en la comunidad.
Laws tat punish immigrants
Are really lousy bills.
Let’s SEND them back to Congress,
‘Cause we have had our fill!
We Grannies say that immigrants
Deserve a decent wage
And schoolrooms for their children,
Or else you’ll hear us rage.
Chorus
EVERY human being
Must be legal in our land,
And LIVE with rights and dignity,
For THAT we’ll take a stand!
We WELCOME every immigrant
From EVERY distant shore.
We’re TIRED of these racist laws!
We Grannies say “no more!”
Chorus
tune: Don’t Fence Me In
Oh, give us space, a little space,
Beneath the starry skies above.
Don’t kick us out!
Let us live and work
In this country that we love.
Don’t wall us out!
Like other immigrants who come here, poor and hungry,
We work hard and we spend our money,
Let us all be citizens of this fair country.
Don’t wall us out!
Oh, give us space, a little space,
Neath the starry skies above.
Don’t kick us out!
Let us live and work
In this country that we love.
Don’t wall us out!
Workers come from other lands
And make the U.S. strong.
Like us they earned the right to say,
“It’s where we all belong!”
We’re sharing stolen land
Let’s right that wrong!
Don’t wall us out!
Grannies sing! Listen! Learn!
Important news you’ll hear:
We welcome immigrants to work
From any hemisphere.
Hear their plight. Don’t lose sight
Of struggles they have known.
Now they’ve come to work with us
And a place to call their own.
Immigration is the way
Our country came to be,
But problems do abound
As you will clearly see.
Some wages that they get
Are blatantly unfair.
It’s something we decry:
The system needs repair!
Night and day, little pay,
Quite close to slavery.
We must push for fairness
And commend their bravery.
Open border! Open hearts!
Display humanity.
Workers from all walks of life
Enrich democracy.
Immigration – I’ve been thinking
What a grand world this would be
If we all were treated fairly –
Honest workers, you and me.
Separating fam’ly members.
We know that just is not right.
Fam’lies need to stay together.
When will we all see the light?
Parents are all working tough jobs,
Jobs that WE don’t want to do.
Then it’s said that jobs are stolen
Don’t believe it – it’s not true!
Snatch up people without warning,
Not one phone call, disappeared.
Send them to a cruel county
Where their voices can’t be heard.
Salvadore is an example
Of the worst thing we can do
Let’s get rid of racist thinking
Lots of us were immigrants, too!
We’re the Raging Grannies
Joinin’ the fight,.
Doo dah, doo dah.
Singin’ out
For immigrants’ rights
All the doo dah day!
Deportation is all wrong
That’s DOO DOO, DOO DOO,
Immigrants need health benefits
And highter wages too!
Many of our fam’lies were immigrants
Came from a-far.
We understand what brought them here,
But now we’ve raised the bar.