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CodePink & Raging Grannies Go Tell it in Mountain View
The Raging Grannies bar-hopped through downtown Mountain View, then joined up with San Jose CodePink at St. Stephen's Pub to educate Obama-manic celebrants with songs and chants.
CodePink brought the words to *This Land is Your Land* with the not-as-well-known "Relief Office" Verse.
In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
By the relief office, I'd seen my people.
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
Is this land made for you and me?
The Raging Grannies brought a song for Obama Inauguration Night, sung to the tune of *Joy to the World*.
Joy to the world, George Bush is gone
That NIGHT-mare now is o'er!
It's time for new priorities
A CHANCE to RE-store liberty
You got Obama in, le-et THE new task be-e-gin
It's Ti-ime to Push Barack, get him on track
He's a good guy, he's not a jerk
But WE'VE still GOT to WORK!
To change our foreign policy
Re-DUCE the power of COM-panies
Those corp'rate dona-TIONS, tho-ose corp'rate dona-TIONS
Ha-ve got TO give way, give way to public funds
And for health care, we've got to get
A SIN-gle PAY-er PLAN!
Obama could use cleverness
And phase it in, in increments
But get insurers out, boot those insurers out.
Le-et pa-TIENTS DE-cide and give the doctors clout.
We might rejoice, and hoot and holler
But will we see the back?
Of profiteers and torturers
Of Ponzi schemes and bung-e-lers
Can we get our country back? Can we have our country back?
A-and can we at last please get out OF I-raq?
In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
By the relief office, I'd seen my people.
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
Is this land made for you and me?
The Raging Grannies brought a song for Obama Inauguration Night, sung to the tune of *Joy to the World*.
Joy to the world, George Bush is gone
That NIGHT-mare now is o'er!
It's time for new priorities
A CHANCE to RE-store liberty
You got Obama in, le-et THE new task be-e-gin
It's Ti-ime to Push Barack, get him on track
He's a good guy, he's not a jerk
But WE'VE still GOT to WORK!
To change our foreign policy
Re-DUCE the power of COM-panies
Those corp'rate dona-TIONS, tho-ose corp'rate dona-TIONS
Ha-ve got TO give way, give way to public funds
And for health care, we've got to get
A SIN-gle PAY-er PLAN!
Obama could use cleverness
And phase it in, in increments
But get insurers out, boot those insurers out.
Le-et pa-TIENTS DE-cide and give the doctors clout.
We might rejoice, and hoot and holler
But will we see the back?
Of profiteers and torturers
Of Ponzi schemes and bung-e-lers
Can we get our country back? Can we have our country back?
A-and can we at last please get out OF I-raq?
For more information:
http://www.RagingGrannies.com
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