Raging Grannies Strong!
- Sung to
- Solidarity Forever
- Written by
- UnCon Grannies 2016
- Gaggle
- Unknown
Written collectively by the UnCon Grannies, 2016; choruses by Vicki Ryder. Change the lyrics in italics to reflect your gaggle's current concerns
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.
Chorus #1:
Look out! ’Cause we are growing bolder!
We’re gaining strength as we grow older!
Our steps they might be slow, and ’though our boobs are hanging low,
We are Raging Grannies strong!
It’s economic equity we’re raging for today.
Billionaires get richer while we struggle for fair pay.
While poor folks sleep on sidewalks, Grannies seek another way…
We are Raging Grannies strong!
Chorus #2:
Look out! ’Cause we are growing bolder!
We’re gaining strength as we grow older!
You can throw us into jail, but by our numbers we’ll prevail.
We are Raging Grannies strong!
They tell us that the TPP’s a benefit for all
But corp’rate power always trumps the rights of one and all.
With loss of jobs and secret courts, it’s such a lousy call…
So spread the word it’s wrong.
REPEAT CHORUS #1 or #2
Climate change is here to stay; it’s hot as hell today!
In other places, homes and farms are being washed away.
Glaciers melt and oceans rise… disasters every day…
And the poor are the first to pay.
REPEAT CHORUS #1 or #2
Anyone can buy a gun; they’re easy to obtain;
Children get their hands on them, they think it’s just a game.
We’ve got to fight the NRA, they really are insane.
We are Raging Grannies strong!
REPEAT CHORUS #1 or #2