AIN’T GONNA LET NOBODY TURN ME AROUND
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Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around, turn me around, turn me around,
Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around,
Gonna keep on a-walkin’, keep on a-talkin’, gonna build a better world.

1. Climate deniers
2. Big O-il
3. Monsanto
4. No pseudo-science
5. No racism
6. No corporations
7. No lobbyists
8. Mitch McConnell

COME & GO WITH ME TO THAT LAND

Come and go with me to that land (3x) where I’m bound (where I’m bound)
Come and go with me to that land (3x) where I’m bound (where I’m bound

1. Green New Deal
2. Solar power
3. Wind and thermal
4. There’s clean water
5. Healthy soil
6. Good, clean air
7. Honest science
8. Climate justice

WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED

We shall not, we shall not be moved, we shall not, we shall not be moved,
Just like a tree that’s standing by the water, we shall not be moved.

1. No more oil dependence, we shall not. . .
2. Oregon says "no fracking"
3. Funding for green jobs
4. Subsidize solar
5. Fossil fuel’s a dinosaur
6. Big Oil pay your taxes
7. Green Power to the people

Spanish chorus
No, no, no nos moverán (x2), comoˬun árbol, firme juntoˬal rio, no nos moverán

Optional verse/chorus
He who shall be nameless, he shall be removed (2x)
Just like the scum that’s floating on the water, he shall be removed.

WE’LL BE ENDING OIL DEPENDENCE
to the tune of She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain

We’ll be ending oil dependence when we come (2x)
We’ll be ending oil dependence (2x)
We’ll be ending oil dependence when we come

2. Saying "no" to fracking
3. Subsidizing solar
4. Funding green jobs
5. Curbing our consumption
6. Riding in the bike lanes
7. Challenging the power

DE COLORES
Traditional, adopted as the anthem of the United Farmworkers
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De colores, de colores se visten los campos en la primavera
De colores, de colores son los pajaritos que vienen de afuera
De colores, de colores es el arco iris que vemos lucir
Y por eso los grandes amores de muchos colores me gustan a mí (x2)

Canta el gallo, canta el gallo con el quiri, quiri, quiri, quiri, quiri
La gallina, la gallina con el cara, cara, cara, cara, cara
Los pollitos, Los pollitos con el pío, pío, pío, pío, pí
Y por eso los grandes amores de muchos colores me gustan a mí (x2)

THE VOICE OF MY GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER
by the Peace Poets

People gonna rise like the water
Gonna calm this crisis down
I hear the voice of my great granddaughter
Singing keep it in the ground

Tune: Bella Ciao, new words by Sing for the Climate
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We need to wake up
We need to wise up,
We need to open our eyes and do it now, now, now!
We need to build a better future
And we need to start right now!
We’re on a planet
That has a problem,
We’ve got to solve it, get involved
And do it now, now, now!
We need to build a better future
And we need to start right now!
Make it greener,
Make it cleaner,
Make it last, make it fast
And do it now, now now!
We need to build a better future
And we need to start right now!
No point in waiting,
Or hesitating,
We must get wise to their lies
And do it now, now, now!
We need to build a better future,
And we need to start right now!

Music and lyrics by Rebecca Stuhlbarg
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Children in cages, Don’t look away, Environmental destruction, Don’t look away
The Mueller report, Don’t look away
Get him out of office.
 
Climate denier, Don’t look away, Repealing protections, Don’t look away
Environmental destruction, Don’t look away
Get him out of office.

Bridge
It’s just too easy to go about our lives
Business as usual, just another genocide.

Andrew Wheeler, head of EPA, lobbied against environmental regulations
Coal is dirty, Don’t look away
Get him out of office.

Repeat bridge

Won’t ratify international agreements striving to lower carbon emissions
We’ve had enough, Don’t look away
Get him out of office. (x4)

© Rebecca Stuhlbarg (legally Ford) 2019 

by Occupella
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Don’t mine it
Don’t drill it
Don’t put it on a train
Burning fossil fuels is just (clap clap) insane
Transition
With justice
Make polluters pay
If we shut down the war machine
We’d have the wealth (clap clap) today

Stephen Zunes remembered the Exxon Valdez verse from somewhere and Nancy Schimmel wrote the rest.
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What shall we do with a drunken sailor? (3x)
Earlie in the morning?
Make him the skipper of the Exxon Valdez (3x)
Earlie in the morning.

Way up the carbon rises (3x) Earlie in the morning.

What shall we do with the tar sands crude? (3x)
Earlie in the morning?
Put it on a train that runs through Berkeley, (3x)
Earlie in the morning.  

Way up the carbon rises...

What shall we do with the fracking water
Earlie in the morning?
Pump it underground and cause an earthquake
Earlie in the morning.

Way up the carbon rises....

What shall we do with the toxic coal ash?
Earlie in the morning?
Dam it up and spill it in the river
Earlie in the morning.

Way up the carbon rises...

What shall we do with the carbon profits
Earlie in the morning?
Buy a yacht and a politician
Earlie in the morning.

Way up the carbon rises...

Tune, Skip to My Lou; Words, Nancy Schimmel
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Chorus: Exxon lied, what'll we do? (3x)
Throw them into prison.

When did they know what they knew,
Since about 1982
But they kept making CO2,
Throw them into prison.

The scientists in their employ
Told them what they would destroy
But profits rose, and they said "Oh boy!"
Throw them into prison.

Chorus

It's they who built our funeral pyre,
The temperature keeps going higher
Liar, liar, pants on fire,
Throw them into prison.

They're lower than the lowest slime
Racketeering is a crime,
Department of Justice, it is time
To throw them into prison.

Chorus

(Proud Mary by John Fogerty, new words: Bonnie Lockhart)
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If you go down to OMSI,
Bet you’re gonna find some people who care
People need the power, got to seize the hour
Washington and Portland and everywhere!

Chorus
Big Oil can’t keep burnin’, We got the tide a’turnin’
Growin’, Growin’, Growin’ climate movement (2x)

We can make jobs in the city
We don’t have to burn those fossil fuels!
There is wealth aplenty, use it for the many
One percent won’t keep | on makin’ rules

(Chorus)

We got imagination
We can build up new technology
With a common vision, make a just transition
Workplaces with real democracy.

(Chorus)

Words by Bonnie Lockhart; chorus to Hard, Ain’t It Hard (Woody Guthrie); verse to New River Train, traditional
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Chorus
It’s hard, ain’t it hard, ain’t it hard,
Ya can’t get easy oil anymore,
It’s hard, ain’t it hard, ain’t it hard, great God!
’Cause fossil fuel is just a dinosaur.
Darlin’ you can’t drill in the sea, (2x)
If you drill in the sea, just remember BP!
Darlin’ you can’t drill in the sea.
Darlin’ you can’t pump the Tar Sands, (2x)
If you pump the Tar Sands you pollute the heartlands,
Darlin’ you can’t pump the Tar Sands.
Chorus
Darlin’ you can’t drill the North Slope, (2x)
If you drill the North Slope people rise up and say "Nope!"
Darlin’ you can’t drill the North Slope.
Darlin’ you can’t take it from Iraq, (2x)
If you take it from Iraq there is major blow back,
Darlin’ you can’t take it from Iraq.
Chorus
Darlin’ you can’t frack natural gas, (2x)
If you frack natural gas, that’s a gas we ought to pass!
Darlin’ you can’t frack natural gas.
Darlin’ you can’t drill anywhere, (2x)
You can’t drill anywhere, there’s too much carbon in the air,
Darlin’ you can’t drill anywhere.
Chorus

by Anna Fritz
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Coal, oil, gas
none of these shall pass.
Leave it in the ground
and turn the trains around. X2

Cascadia is a place of great power.
We stand at the mouth of the river,
rooted to the land and its people,
we turn the trains around. X2

Coal, oil, gas
none of these shall pass.
Leave it in the ground
and turn the trains around.

We are a people awakening.
We are a people reclaiming.
We are a people demanding:
turn the trains around! X2

from On A High Hill, released October 14, 2016, all rights reserved

Tune: Yellow Rose of Texas, lyrics by Nancy Schimmel & Bonnie Lockhart
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The Dakota Access Pipeline is a pipeline straight from hell
And where it meets the river they're bound to have a spill
A lot of Sioux from Standing Rock are standing 'gainst the pipe,
They know the safety promises are just a lot of hype (2x)

It's a company in Texas
That threatens Standing Rock
Kelcy Warren owns it
Or he owns a lot of stock
This Warren gave Republicans
A million and a half
So in every bill in Congress he'll own a paragraph (2x)

You oilmen down in Texas
It's time to get a clue
Your oil thing is over,
Quit belching CO2
The tribes have come to tell you
From Oneida to Lanai
Leave the oil in North Dakota and kiss fossil fuel goodbye (2x)

(Do Lord Remember Me); New words byNancy Schimmel
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What is this I’m eating? I want to know.
What is this I’m eating? I want to know.
What is this I’m eating? I want to know.
So I won’t eat GMO.

Put it on the label, I want to know.
Put it on the label, I want to know.
Put it on the label, I want to know.
So I won’t eat GMO

I won’t be your guinea pig, I want to know (3x)
And I won’t eat GMO

Gonna make Monsanto tell me, I want to know. (3x)
So I won’t eat GMO

Lyrics by Betsy Rose and Nancy Schimmel
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Take me out of the big banks,
Take me out of their game,
The credit union can have my dough,
I’ll cut up my credit cards, pay as I go
And it’s root root root for the small banks,
Let’s give them our business and thanks,
And it’s 1, 2, 3 million more,
And we’ll close big banks!

Take me out of the big banks,
Chase/JP Morgan and more
They put our money in pipes for oil
That leak in the water and poison the soil
And it’s root, root root for the people
Standing up to their claim,
And it’s 1, 2, 3, put them out!
It’s a new ball game!

Music by Harry Dixon Loes
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This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine (3x)
Let it shine (3x)

1. Organize to stop the trains, I'm gonna let it shine…
2. Everywhere I go
3. All around our children
4. All around Portland
5. All around Washington
6. All around the whole wide world

Spanish chorus
Esta luz mía, voy a verla brillar/ A brillar (3x)