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Scary Blues
- Sung to
- Button Up Your Overcoat
- Written by
- Carolyn Hale
- Gaggle
- Seattle
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Tips from the gaggle
- 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.
SING IT to the tune of Button Up Your Overcoat
I am seeing scary things.
No one does but me.
I can’t afford my meds.
Why aren’t they free?
Spent three days in hospital,
Gave me some bus fare.
Is there a place for me?
Can’t remember where.
Do I have food to eat?—no, no.
Place to sleep?—no, no.
Care and friends?—no, no.
Make a scene and end up in the pokey.
Fewer beds are there for me.
I need help, not jail.
We need to organize—
Must the system fail?
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Written by
Carolyn Hale
For the
Seattle Gaggle