Radical Environmentalists-Coal
- Sung to
- Coming Round the Mountain
- Written by
- Carolyn Powers, Kay Thode, Laurie Rostholder, and Vicki Ryder
- Gaggle
- Seattle
Know the tune Coming Round the Mountain? You're ready.
Record your gaggle singing it and we'll feature it here.
- 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.
Oh, we’re radical environmentalists.
We’re radical environmentalists,
No more coal should be mined, (no break)
And the coal plants shut not fined, (pause)
We’re radical environmentalists.
Oh, the dust escapes from the open cars.
The coughing can be heard from near and far.
And the trains mess up the traffic, (no break)
Causing massive city havoc, (pause)
We’re radical environmentalists.
We want that black stuff to stay in the ground.
Or in the future, there will be no children’s sounds,
Billion tons of CO 2, (no break)
Into the air it does spew, (pause)
We’re radical environmentalists.
Yes, we’re radical environmentalists,
Mess with mother earth, it makes us pissed.
So get out and tell the others, (no break)
That the earth is still our mother, (pause)
Then you’ll all be true environmentalists!