Singin' our song . . .
To see the words to the songs, click on the title in the list on the right side of the page.
The words to these songs are written to (mostly) well-known tunes (if you don’t know the tune, look it up on YouTube, under its original name). Most of these were cobbled together by S.C. WILPF Granny Jan Harwood. They aren’t copyrighted, so Jan says, “Sing them wherever you want to, the louder and the more often the better. Copy them and hand them out so your friends can sing ‘em, too.”
There are thousands of other Granny songs, as there are Granny gaggles all over this country, Canada, and some in other countries. Each gaggle has its own writers, and although we share, we tend to like our homegrown songs best.
We have songs about many things of importance to the peace and environmental communities; there’s a list of them on the home page. Near the end is a category of old Bush-era songs, which got us and many folks in our community through the hardest eight years of our lives. If you can stand to recall the blows to our solar plexuses, our country and our human rights, day after day during all those years, you might chuckle at these songs.
BRING 'EM HOME
(Country Roads)
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home
Bring ‘em back where they belong
They’re our children
Stop the killin’
Bring ‘em home, bring ’em home.
They have marched off to learn
How to kill--and be killed;
Will they know how to love us
And be kind, and be kind?
Those who made this bad war
Sent them off filled with lies;
Some are dyin’, some are cryin’
Broken hearts are their prize.
Are their minds filled with fear?
Are their souls filled with shame?
For their country, they have slaughtered
Will they know whom to blame?
Bring ‘em home, bring ‘em home
Bring ‘em back where they belong
They’re our children
Stop the killin’
Bring ‘em home, bring ’em home.
Great start on the web site, Granny Jan!
How about a list of all the places and events where the SC Grannies have sang?
Wow, Pavel! I couldn’t even think of them all! We’ve sung at so many peace rallies and vigils, so many protests and die-ins, at speeches by Medea Benjamin, Sam Farr, Daniel Hirsch, and many others; we’ve sung in parades and boy, did we belt out some happy songs on Obama’s Inauguration Day, just before WILPF put on a huge street party that all of Santa Cruz got into in a very big way! We’ve put on several concerts: at the Crepe Place, the Coffee Roasting Company, De Anza Mobile Home Park, Sunshine Villa. Sometimes, we just go out on Pacific Ave. in downtown Santa Cruz and sing our hearts out. I hope you come and see us tne next time we do our thing; we’ll let you know on this website. Thanks for writing us. Jan
We lovedyour songs. I especially liked the 2 songs on your 1st video. Thanks for including our video taken at a wet Clearwater, 2008. Corinne
What a terrific website! The links to the Youtube videos are great fun. We love the Raging Grannies—and when will you Twiiter?
We twitter, we chirp, we warble, we squawk–geez, what more do you want? But thanks for the pat on the back!
Thanks, Corinne! I’m putting your gaggle’s link on the site. Now we can share songs. I have the video of a New York group singing “I’ve Always Paid My Taxes,” which I wrote. Was that you? I’m so glad you’re out there! Jan Harwood
nowadays, we are seeing some water shortage and water conservation is even more necessary~’;
Love the gay songs, Would love to hear them sung !
We have no idea what all these comments are referring to–we do have some good water conservation songs, but this is ridiculous! If we did help preserve even one little drop of pure H2O, however, good on us!
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