Exploding Oil Trains

Sung to: Home on the Range
Written by: Laurie Rostholder
Gaggle: Seattle

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SING IT to the tune of Home on the Range

Seattle’s our home
And we don’t want it blown
Up by trains carrying volatile oil.
The tanks are so old
They can eas’ly explode
We’ve seen how they kill and they maim.

Chorus:
Keep those trains far from us
Or better yet don’t let them muss
Our climate up more
Let’s show them the door
Keep the oil in the ground evermore.

How can we let greed
So eas’ly impede
Our right to a climate that’s clean
The future looks bleak
Unless we can keep
Fossil fuels down where they belong.

Chorus

This statement we make
Is strong not opaque
Clearly we fear for our lives
In the present and then
For our kids and their kin
Keep all that oil in the ground.

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Written by

Laurie Rostholder

For the

Seattle Gaggle