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Ripping Off Public Education

Tune: Bicycle Built for Two
Songwriter: Marta & Lee
Gaggle: Tucson
Key: G sharp above Middle C
Written: January 1, 1970
Business & Economy Education Government & Politics Human & Civil Rights Labor & Worker Rights Local Issues

Trump‘s a Fat… Cat… helping the wealthy few,

He let E-lon scre-ew our kid’s schools too!

They’re playing us all for foo-ools

while looting our public schoo-ools.

They want us all dumb

so we will succumb… to accepting their greedy rules!

Cor-po-ra-tions… and indi-vid-uals too

getbigtaxcredits… for their donations to

schools that are chartered or pri-vate,

whose profits they will pirate!

Closing schools for the masses will dumb down our asses

so we won’t resist this tyrant!

Fat Cat and Muskrat… both on the same side of wrong!

There’s no poss-ee!… That’s why we sing this song!

It’s now gone from bad to wo-orse

since they cut off the pu-urse.

Public ed-uca-tion is be-ing un-done

’cause bill-ionaires’ tax cuts come first!

Trump and Musk have ze-ro empa-thy.

They don’t care ’bout chil-dren or you or me.

Only their own profit matters,

leaving our country in tatters…

It’s up to us… to do more than just fuss

WITHOUT SCHOOLS THERE’S NO DEMOCRACY!