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Project 2025

Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Songwriter: Margaret Villani
Gaggle: Piedmont
Key: Key of C
Written: July 25, 2024
Business & Economy Education Environment & Energy Gender Equity Government & Politics Healthcare Human & Civil Rights Soldiers & Veterans

Mine eyes have seen the coming of American royalty

Anointed by the Court Supreme with all immunity

To prevent a presidential king, it’s up to you and me

If Democracy goes marching on

CHORUS:

Power lust is never satisfied

Billionaires, they want to rule our lives

Pay low wages and jack up our living costs

Enough! Demand your rights!

I’ve seen warnings written in a hundred news reports

Project twenty twenty five our freedoms will abort

With a tyrant on Day One our rights will be under assault

Will a king be president?

I’ve read a fiery manual, writ in angry tones of zeal

By those who want the freedom to make their shady deals

Their endless itch for power will force us all to kneel

At the altar of gold and greed

CHORUS:

Power lust is never satisfied

Billionaires, they want to rule our lives

Pay low wages and jack up our living costs

Enough! Demand your rights!

Destroy a hundred years of protective regulation

It’ll only take a day or so of signing proclamations

Clean air and water, living wages, public education

Gone by the stroke of a pen

The king fires civil servants, fifty thousand or more

Hires his politicos, who loyalty have sworn

Obey the king, right or wrong, legalities ignored

They serve in submission

CHORUS:

Power lust is never satisfied

Billionaires, they want to rule our lives

Pay low wages and jack up our living costs

Enough! Demand your rights

Abortion, contraception, in vitro fertilization

The right to choose belongs to us, so please pay close attention

No woman’s life should be at risk from faulty legislation

We won’t breed like rabbits!

Project twenty twenty five fills nine hundred pages

Hurts the young, the old, the disabled, and people of all ages

We must rise up and take a stand, and verbalize our rages!

Our freedom depends on us

CHORUS:

Power lust is never satisfied

Billionaires, they want to rule our lives

Pay low wages and jack up our living costs

Enough! Demand your rights!

(slow): Enough! Demand your rights!

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