Piedmont Raging Grannies & Jo-Hanna Read
Tune: Billy Boy

We were angry when you raised all those taxes on the poor
We were outraged when you authorized those pipelines
Infrastructure’s gone to pot
Our grandkids getting shot
So we’re raging – cause now you’ve pissed off grandma.

You gerrymandered our elections and it’s harder now to vote
You rob women of their right to family planning.
Gay or straight or trans or poor
We’re worse off now than we were
You’ve ignored us so now you’ve pissed off grandma!

Social security’s in danger, Medicaid and Medicare.
Folks are dying every day for lack of health care.
Prisoners are locked in cages
Workers can’t get living wages
This is cruel – and you’ve really pissed off grandma.

You are stealing public taxes to support those private schools.
And you’re banning books and teaching whitewashed hist’ry.
With our teachers unsupported
And more immigrants deported
Feel our wrath, you’ve truly pissed off grandmas.

We see fat cats getting richer on the spoils of your wars.
You build bombs and drones while kids can’t get school lunches.
We say stop your racists wars
And start listening to the poor
Wake up, cause now you’ve pissed off grandma.

We’ve heard you claim you’re pious Christians as self-righteous as can be,
While our vet’rans sleep homeless on our sidewalks.
And while folks are going broke
You’re concerned about who’s woke!
You’re hypocrites and now you’ve pissed off grandma.

But we grannies have grown wise to your greed and to your lies,
And we know wrong from right and right from wrong.
We’ll keep singing through our pain
With the Poor Peoples’ Campaign
And throw you out cause you’ve really pissed off grandma!

Speak: And now we’re REALLY pissed off grandmas!