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For Our Grandchildren’s Sake

Tune: Sweet Betsy From Pike
Songwriter: Marcy Matasick, Albuquerque RG/((Revised for Tucson Gaggle 08/08/17) by Lee
Gaggle: Tucson
Key: C sharp
Business & Economy Government & Politics Human & Civil Rights Local Issues

Our nation has people in desperate straits.

It’s high time we care for the United States

for we are the people we must liberate.

End corporate rule

for our grandchildren’s sake!

End corporate rule for our grandchildren’s sake!

Our bridges and highways are falling a-part.

Most leaders in Washington don’t have a heart.

They spend all our money on killing and hate

Let’s re-build at home

for our grandchildren’s sake!

Let’s rebuild at home for our grandchildren’s sake!

We’re overextended. We’re stretched to the max,

expecting our grand-kids to pay it all back.

To bankrupt our nation’s a tragic mistake.

Let’s bring home our troops

for our grandchildren’s sake!

Let’s end violence for everyone’s sake!

Our wars are atrocities, driven by lies.

At home we let job loss and poverty rise.

WHAT kind of world do you want to create?

Let’s stop waging wars!

(shout) STOP!