Raging Grannies

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Fossil-Fueled Tragedies

Tune: Blowin' in the Wind

Songwriter: Piedmont Raging Grannies

Gaggle: Piedmont

Key: Key: G, starting note: D

Business & Economy Environment & Energy Government & Politics

How many houses must floods wash away

Before we achieve clean energy?

How many wildfires must wipe out our towns

B’fore we say the heat is too high?

How many heat waves will it take ‘til we say

Climate change is an existential threat?

CHORUS:

The last chance to curb fossil-fuel tragedies

The last chance to change is right now

We can’t change the course of a hurricane

By drawing with a Sharpie pen

Si-lenced sci-ence as nature’s fury grows

Leaves us rocked and shocked to tears

How many years did we waste idling by

As fossil fuel execs denied and lied?

CHORUS

How many wea-ther deaths must we see

Til fossil-fuel sub-sid-ies end?

Instead of changing climate on planet Mars

Let’s work on healing planet earth

We must stand together in solidarity

The lives we save may be our own

CHORUS – 2x