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Voting Song

  • by Karen Schneider-Chen et al
  • tune: Addams Family Theme
  •  Chorus:
    Get out and vote! (snap, snap)
    Get out and vote! (snap, snap)
    Get out and vote! Get out and vote!
    Get out and vote! (snap, snap)

It’s time to take a stand
On issues in the land.
Don’t bury your head in sand–
Get off your duff and vote!

  • Chorus

Young and old alike
Claim our hard fought fight.
Exercise that right:
Get off your duff and vote!

  • Chorus

Don’t gripe if you have not
Marked the ballot spot
To register your thought.
Get off your duff and vote!

  • Chorus

Vote by absentee.
Keep this country free.
Join you and you and me:
Get off your duff and vote!

  • Chorus (twice)

Prime Time Slime

  • Edmonton Grannies, adapted by Karen Schneider-Chen 
  • tune: Home on the Range

Oh, give us TV, without violence, please!
We’ve discussed this at least fifty years.
We’re sick and we’re tired
To see programming mired
In murder and mayhem and fear.

Chorus:
How do children learn
To be wise, free thinking and strong?
They need role models who
Show the kind thing to do,
Who demonstrate violence is wrong.

Do you wonder why crime increases each time,
With those do-it-yourself training shows?
How to rape, rob and scam with complete diagram.
We are truly fed up, heaven knows!

Chorus

Don’t train kids for crime,
With your prime time slime—
Put spunk and adventure right back.
We want FCC
To enrich our TV
With programs of fancy and fact.

Chorus

Grannies Against Stuff

  • by Canadian Grannies, adapted by Karen Schneider-Chen 
  • tune: Frosty the Snowman

We’re the Raging Grannies
And we’re asking you today
To cut down on buying more stuff—
Show your kids a better way.
We don’t like landfills
Full of stuff that’s thrown away,
We like walks and talks and constructive games
To fill our grandkids’ day.

They don’t need all those presents
To fill their lives with cheer.
They really want your love and time
Throughout the coming year.
So join the Raging Grannies:
Boycott all that stuff.
Today is buy nothing day—
We all have enough.