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Public-Owned Banks & Worker Co-operatives

Tune: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Songwriter: Lee Stanfield
Gaggle: Tucson
Written: May 15, 2025
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We need an economy

that supports democracy.

Cap‘talism in-ate-ly

brings wealth in-e-qual-i-ty

through its work-place hier-ar-chy

EM-ploy-ER over employEE.

What we need is work-er owned

co-OP‘ra-tives be-cause they’re known

for workplace de-moc-ra-cy,

to build wealth equal-i-ty!

Ex-ploit-ing work-ers must stop now

No work-er should be a cash cow!

Lo-cal bankspublicly owned

are needed to issue loans

Work-ers can then buy comp’nies

to be their own em-ploy-ees.

This is being done else-where.

Americans deserve it here!