{"id":1500,"date":"2014-03-29T14:57:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T21:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2025-09-20T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:15:09","slug":"give-me-a-home-where-the-rivers-dont-foam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/give-me-a-home-where-the-rivers-dont-foam\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Me a Home Where the Rivers Don&#8217;t Foam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Raging Grannies Songbook, 1993<\/em><br>\n<em>tune: Home on the Range<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, give me a home where the rivers don\u2019t foam,<br> And the squirrels and chipmunks can play,<br> Where the lakes all have fish you can put on your dish,<br> And the skies are not smoggy and grey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Chorus:<br>\nHome, home on the earth,<br>\nYour beauty\u2019s beginning to fade.<br>\nWe\u2019ve got to act fast,<br>\nOur luck it won\u2019t last.<br>\nOur home we just can\u2019t throw away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Those nuclear wastes are inclined to escape<br>\nWhen into the ground they are dumped.<br>\nWe don\u2019t want PCBs in the birds and the bees<br>\nAnd dioxin on our babies\u2019 rumps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Chorus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, give me a home safe inside the ozone.<br>\nThere\u2019s danger in those cosmic rays.<br>\nOceans up to our neck from greenhouse effect\u2014<br>\nPlease don\u2019t wash all this beauty away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Chorus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, give me a home where the rivers don\u2019t foam, And the squirrels and chipmunks can play, Where the lakes all have fish you can put on your dish, And the skies are not smoggy and grey. Those nuclear wastes are inclined to escape When into the ground they are dumped. We don\u2019t want PCBs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}