My Student Loans
TUNE: THE GIRL THAT I MARRY I live in my dad’s basement pad Cause now I’m no longer an undergrad McDonalds pays my way To so many luxurious things I can’t say. My student loans are a piece of cake They take three-quarters of what I make Lest I take off Or I’m laid off Only thirty years more and they’re paid off And then I can marry No reason to tarry There’ll be. So Canadian kids will be poor or dumb Or flee to countries, and there are some Like Germany, Denmark and Spain and Sweden and Cuba and Ireland so sane Where tuition is free just as it...
Read MoreIt’s a Long Way to the Food Bank
Tune: It’s a Long Way to Tipperary It’s a long way to the Food Bank All my friends are–in line– With cuts to–social programs no one’s doing fine! It’s goodbye to good health care– disabled wane and pine while the rich folk’s fill their bulging pickets.. Our kids ask us … “Why”?? Well thanks to Michael Harris and his 905 friends– “Cut the welfare, chop support groups, such waste has got to end!” Put the axe to social housing farewell to day care. Social action now and we will...
Read MoreFlaw in the System
Tune: Hole in the Bucket There’s a flaw in the system when the rich just get ricker and the poor just keep falling down into the pits. When cutting down taxes Means programs get ax-ed poor kids have got problems that will not get fixed. And if you’re dis-abled or just dis-enabled well, you’ro outta luck when the goodies are hurled! Well, Grannies want changes! This poor-bashing pains us. Treating people like shit is a crime we should quell. There’s a flaw in the system and you damn well know it– So why won’t you fix...
Read MoreYou Beat Up Our Gang
(Tune: Loch Lomond) You beat up our gang and we beat up your gang and You take revenge in the morning Then we take our turn and there’s always a return To the killing that comes when we’re warring. O we’re told what to think and before we even blink, We’re pumped and we’re hot to be in it For glory and gore just another ugly war With no reason why to begin it. O it’s not for the good and it’s not for the right and It’s not for our god, queen or honour It’s just so the arms dealers make a lot more dough So they hope wars go...
Read MoreMy Student Loans
Tune: The Girl That I Marry I live at my Dad’s in a basement pad ‘Cause now I’m no longer an undergrad McDonald’s pays my way To so many luxurious things I can’t say My student loans are a piece of cake They take three-quarters of what I make Lest I take off / Or I’m laid off Only thirty years more and they’re paid off And then I can marry No reason to tarry there’ll be. So Canadian kids will be poor or dumb Or flee to countries, and there are some Like Germany, Denmark and Spain And Sweden and Cuba and Ireland so sane Where...
Read MoreYellow Cake
Tune: Flying Trapeze They’re baking a cake with a wonderful tint Is it good for us, well we can give you a hint If we enrich it ’twill sell for a mint And we all get to bask in the glow. Please have some cake, we hear that it’s good Old Frontenac Ventures tells us that we should And they mine the stuff so they know that we could Develop a sort of a glow. They’re baking, they’re baking a wonderful cake They’re thinking of all of the money they’ll make Forget all the tailings, the sludge in the lake To give us a sort of a...
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