The Raging Grannies’ Handy-Dandy All-Purpose Generic Protest Song
- Sung to
- This Land Is Your Land
- Written by
- Vicki Ryder
- Gaggle
- Rochester
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.
Here’s our generic all-purpose protest song,
And we can sing it whenever things go wrong.
It’s how we protest for peace and justice,
So we sing it loud and sing it strong.
We start by naming the current problem:
Election fraud or profiling Muslims,
Pre-emptive warfare for corporate profit…
We just trot out this handy-dandy song.
Torturing prisoners or global warming,
Or health insurance that doesn’t cure us;
Deporting immigrants or nuclear weapons…
We just sing out this good all-purpose song.
We’re Raging Grannies, so we’ll keep singing
And we’ll keep raging, our voices ringing.
As we get older we’re growing bolder,
So we sing our generic protest song.
And now we’re coming up to the ending…
That’s where we ask you to join our protest.
Get off your fannies and join the Grannies,
And sing out your protest loud and strong!