Beneath the Nuclear Umbrella – Expanded
- Sung to
- What A Friend We Have In Jesus
- Written by
- Unknown
- Gaggle
- Seattle
- Filed
- July 28, 2025
By the Victoria BC Grannies; additional lyrics by Vicki Ryder
Familiar with the tune? Grab a hat, gather some friends, and sing it at your next action.
- Read the lyrics through once silently before singing.
- If the original tune is unfamiliar, look it up first.
- Modify freely. Every gaggle adapts songs to local issues.
Beneath the nuclear umbrella
We’re as safe as we can be,
[With the fascists in the White House]
They’ll look out for you and me.
We don’t have to think about it
Our defense has been assured
What would we all do without it?
Don’t it make you feel secure?
Beneath the nuclear umbrella
We just keep on making more
Bombs and drones and other weapons
Threatenin’ another nuclear war.
Then we’ll never have to worry
‘Cause all the power will be ours.
We’ll be safe here on the planet
In graves and pushin’ up the flowers.
Beneath the nuclear umbrella
Where the fascists seal our fate
They tell us Armageddon’s coming
And all we have to do is wait!
But we’re the Bad-Ass Raging Grannies
And won’t be silent anymore.
We say: “No more Hiroshimas”
And we’ll work to put an end to war.