Tag Archives: Jeanne Lorimer

songwriter

Billions and Billions

  • tune: I Got Rhythm
    by Jeanne Lorimer)

We spend billions
Lotsa billions,
We spend billions
To fight these ‘fabulous’ wars.

None for jobs here
None for health care,
Education
Low as it can go.

Corporations making billions
While the poor guys,
Go off to fight in these wars.

(Slowly with ZEAL)
So, let’s show them
We mean business,
We want peace NOW!
Let’s bring those billions back home!!
(Give it your all!)
YEAH!!!!! Let’s bring those billions back home!!!!!

Taking Care

  • by Sue Kay, Jeanne Lorimer, Jo-Hanna Read, Rita Selin 
  • tune Favorite Things

Red wine and choc’lates and salmon and kiwis,
Water aerobics and laughter if you please,
Walking and talking and sharing with friends,
These are a few of our favorite things.

When the wind blows wear your warm clothes.
Keep your powder dry.
Remember your vegetables and the red wine—
And only one piece of pie!

Crosswords and pinochle, bridge and sudoku,
Keep your mind nimble and it will see you through.
Tangles of memory lost by the way—
Where will you be at the end of the day?

Don’t like walkers, don’t like four-prongs,
Can we take a bus?
If you do all of our favorite things,
Then you’ll look good—like us!

Grandma’s Fate

tune: I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
By Jeanne Lorimer

Will they pull the plug on Grandma?
Will they pull the plug one day?
That is just what I’ve been hearing,
If Obama has his way!

If that is what you believe, dear
I’ve something here for sale:
(Speak) The Brooklyn Bridge
The Eiffel Tower
And Buckingham Palace, too!

So, my friend, I need to ask you
To listen to the TRUTH:
Grandma’s really safe
As safe as she can be.
The choice is up to her, you see!

(Speak)
WE ALL HAVE A CHOICE!

Blackwater Men

  • by: Jeanne Lorimer
  • tune: Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay

Blackwater men are strong and tall,
Mercenaries one and all.
Earn their wages free and clear,
Shooting bullets far and near.

Chorus:
Keeping peace, keeping peace.
All for democracy.

If their bullets go astray, “What the hell,” you hear them say.
They’re here to watch over you.
Surely, you do have a clue!

Chorus.

Wages are spectacular.
Just who pays them is not “clar.”
Ten thousand dollars monthly due.
Military men: that’s not for you.

Chorus

Yes, Blackwater men are strong and tall,
Mercenaries, one and all.
Earn their wages free and clear,
Shooting bullets far and near

Chorus