Raging Grannies
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DEFUND DHS TODAY!

Tune: Ballin' the Jack
Songwriter: Lee Stanfield
Gaggle: Tucson
Key: E above Middle C
Written: January 1, 1970
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Instead of defendin’ our country

Department of Homeland Security

pays ICE to kill folks willy nilly

and unlike you and me, they walk away free!

The best defense for our country

is to defend our democracy!

That’s why the world looked up to us.

But ICE has now turned that into dust!

If you think DHS is about

homeland security, ya’ better look out

’cause it is just a-nother scheme

to give more contro-ol to the Tru-ump regi-ime!

A hundred seventy BILLION spent

on DHS last year… guess where it went?

ICE and the Border got eight-y two percent

but FEMA’s two percent barely pai-aid the rent!

Now they wanna give ICE e-ven more

But we say “We need to SHUT THAT DOOR!

Delia Ramirez wants to shut it all down

and that is the best i-de-a a-rou-ound!

The ti-ny a-mount that was al-located to

fundin’ FEMA and the Coast Guard too

can be done many other ways

End this mess! Defund DHS TODAY!