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Grout the Waste
- Sung to
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- Written by
- Kay Thode
- Gaggle
- Seattle
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SING IT to the tune of Bye Bye Blackbird
Turn the nuke waste into grout,
It is safe, there’s no doubt.
Who needs cleanup?
If you do not agree,
Our funds they’ll cut,
You will see.
Oh, it’s blackmail.
DOE must really know the answers,
Surely they won’t try to give us cancers.
So grout the waste, reclassify,
It’s not you who will die.
Cleanup, bye, bye.
Vitrify 25 percent.
Grout the rest, it is spent,
Bye, bye cleanup.
When the grout does degrade,
Grandkids’ lives they will fade.
Bye, bye Grandkids.
We’re here to protest all this folly.
We won’t let you pull it off, by golly!
We will fight for full cleanup,
Nothing lewss, clean the mess.
Clean up, clean up!
♦ ♦ ♦
Written by
Kay Thode
For the
Seattle Gaggle