Take the Gross Out of Groceries
Lyrics © 2014 Kay Thode
- Tune
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- Written by
- Kay Thode
- Gaggle
- Seattle
From The Raging Grannies Songbook, 1993, adapted by Kay Thode
Know the tune Take Me Out to the Ball Game? You're ready.
Record your gaggle singing it and we'll feature it here.
- Read the lyrics through once silently before singing.
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Take the gross out of groc’ries,
Keep altered food off our plates.
Some of these products sound quite bizarre!
Keep mom’s home cooked fav’rites just as they are
Cause it’s gross, gross, gross, what they’re planning,
Gene splicing’s really a shame.
We’ll get down (pause) on (pause) our knees and say please
(pause) end Monsanto’s game!
Take the gross out of gro’ries.
We are playing roulette.
Who can tell what will come of this change,
Or what happens when food’s rearranged?
This is just what we’ve always feared and
You know who is to blame!
Put a freeze (pause) on (pause) facsimiles,
End Monsanto’s game!
Free to sing, share, and print with credit to Kay Thode and the Seattle Raging Grannies. Not for sale. raginggrannies.org