Dear Old Mother Earth
- Sung to
- I've Been Workin' On The Railraod
- Written by
- Vicki Ryder
- Gaggle
- Rochester
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.
You’ve been throwin’ all your garbage In the city dump!
Don’t throw away the baby diapers,
’Cause they’ll sit there in a lump.
Our water’s getting real polluted,
There’s not enough to drink.
If we sit here doing nothing,
Our world will really stink!
CHORUS:
You know what to do, it’s really up to you!
Tell the polluters that they need to stop!
If we don’t follow through, by twenty-twenty-two,
Our dear old Earth will blow her top.
We keep building nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants,
But where, oh where, will all the waste go?
We can’t just stick it in our pants!
It’s seeping into all our water
And making us all sick!
Let’s convert to solar power.
We must do something quick!
CHORUS
Acid rain just keeps on falling on trees and lakes and streams,
We can’t keep burning fossil fuel
It’s much worse than it seems!
We’ve got to switch to solar power
Or windmills, they’re good too!
The future of our dear old Mother Earth
Is really up to you!
CHORUS