BRING BACK MY PLANET
Tune: Bring Back My Bonnie
Sung by 300+ participants at the final plenary of Food Secure Canada’s national Assembly, Edmonton, November 4, 2012
Our air miles make carbon dioxide,
Our lifestyle makes lots of debris,
While more and more people go hungry,
Oh bring back my planet to me.
Chorus:
Bring back, bring back,
Oh bring back my planet to me, to me.
Bring back, bring back,
Oh bring back my planet to me.
Corporations can’t patent the sunshine,
But their wealth has to grow constantly
So they plunder the planet for profits,
Oh bring back my planet to me.
They’re using fresh water for fracking
And to flush down our poo and our pee,
While mines use our lakes as their dump sites!
Oh bring back my planet to me.
Chorus
Our crops are polluted with toxins,
And no food is GMO-free,
Not corn and not soy nor canola,
Oh bring back my planet to me.
Our food is constructed in fact’ries,
More cheap and more filling to be;
But it’s making us sick, fat, and stupid
Oh bring back my planet to me.
Chorus
We’ve got to do better than tar sands,
And pipelines that go to the sea.
We’re powering up a great movement
To bring back my planet to me.
It’s time that we rose up in anger
And reject the whole system of greed
We’ll build a new world for our children
Where everyone has what they need!
Chorus:
Together we’ll bring back,
Bring back the planet for you, for me
Bring back, bring back
We’ll bring back the planet, you’ll see!