{"id":435,"date":"2013-01-05T11:45:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=435"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:32:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:32:25","slug":"give-us-a-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/give-us-a-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Us a Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><em>Tune: Home on the Range<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Lyrics: Vicki Ryder<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">give<\/span> us a beach<br>\nWhere <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">oil<\/span> spills can\u2019t reach,<br>\nAnd there\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">no<\/span> sticky goo on the sand,<br>\nWhere <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">child<\/span>ren can play,<br>\nAnd the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">birds<\/span> and fish stay<br>\nFree from<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> harm<\/span> &#8230; that\u2019s our simple demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Chorus:<br>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Save<\/span> our seas and our sand!<br>\nWe\u2019re<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> here<\/span> and we\u2019re taking a stand!<br>\nSay <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NO<\/span> to those rigs<br>\nAnd those <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">comp<\/span>\u2019nies so big!<br>\nMother<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Earth<\/span> still comes first in our land!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gran<\/span>nies are blue.<br>\nOur pre<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">dic<\/span>tions came true,<br>\nAnd their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">oil<\/span> leaked onto our shore.<br>\nIt\u2019s<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> goo<\/span>ey and black<br>\nAnd we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">can\u2019t<\/span> put it back.<br>\nSo we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">don\u2019t<\/span> want them drillin\u2019 no more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Drill<\/span>, baby, drill\u201d<br>\nWas a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">li<\/span>cense to kill<br>\nFor Hal\u2019<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">bur<\/span>ton, TransOcean, BP,<br>\nSo <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">boy<\/span>cott BP<br>\nAnd then <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">may<\/span>be they\u2019ll see<br>\nWhat we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">think<\/span> of crude oil in the sea!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, give us a beach Where oil spills can\u2019t reach, And there\u2019s no sticky goo on the sand, Where children can play, And the birds and fish stay Free from harm &#8230; that\u2019s our simple demand. We Grannies are blue. Our predictions came true, And their oil leaked onto our shore. It\u2019s gooey and black [&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":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}