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We Need Radical Profitectomies

Tune: She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain
Songwriter: Lee Stanfield
Gaggle: Tucson
Key: B below Middle C
Written: March 24, 2026
Business & Economy Environment & Energy Gender Equity Government & Politics Healthcare Human & Civil Rights Labor & Worker Rights Local Issues

We need radical pro-fit-ect-o-mies!

Profit’s wreaking havoc on our whole species!

All our basic needs must be-ee… (pause)

owned collectively-ee

in-stead of by some Billionaire bu-ull-ies!

We must get all profit out of our healthcare!

But we cannot end the surgery right there!

We need government to do-oo

what it is sup-pos’d to-oo…. (pause)

That is to provide the common we-el-fare!

The word “common” means the av-er-age person.

It does not mean just the richest sons of guns.

And for ev‘ryone’s wel-fa-are

those fat cats have to sha-are

‘stead of act-in’ like they’re the only ones!

All those who are workin’ for some Billion-aire

now should come together to declare

they are quittin’, and will start up

their own worker-owned co-ops

where ev‘ry worker owns an equal share!

Ev’ry-one deserves ba-sic u-til-i-ties

so they should be owned by us collectively.

As a ci-ty or a county,

we should not pay a bounty

because some investor somewhere so decrees!

DEMAND PRO-FIT-ECT-O-MIES NATIONWIDE !!!