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Clearcut the Forest
- Sung to
- My Favorite Things
- Written by
- Unlisted Songwriter
- Gaggle
- Seattle
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SING IT to the tune of My Favorite Things
Clearcut the forest
And kill all the fishes.
DEnude the hillsides
Against all our wishes.
Who cares if all of our trees disappear?
We can grow more in about 80 years.
Who needs green trees?
Who needs clear streams?
Who needs oxygen?
We’re fooling around with
The health of the earth—
It may not heal again.
(quiet) If no one knows it,
(loud) Let’s expose it.
Make it go away.
Refuse to buy wood
That’s not cut as it should.
Let us begin today!
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Written by
Unlisted Songwriter
For the
Seattle Gaggle