Skipping Chant for Pipeline 613
Skipping Chant: Pipeline, pipeline Where does it go? All that sticky, goopy gunk What if it should blow? Pipeline, pipeline Water’s all around Oil will kill the water birds And contaminate the ground. Pipeline, pipeline Age 55 or more Rusty holes and blockages Are certainly in store! Pipeline, pipeline Murphy’s always there. Denials and assurances Won’t remove the scare. Pipeline, pipeline What about our dreams? Healthy fish and waters pure Drinking from the streams? Photo: Jo rests after 10 km. hike while Jane (in short skirt) gets ready to...
Read MoreSong for the Paddlers
Song for the Paddlers: (tune: Row, row, row your boat) Row, row, row your boat Along the 613 This is where the oil will spill That we guarantee. Sell, sell, sell the oil As quickly as you can Forget the future of our kids And devastated land. No, no, no you can’t Deny that it is true Tarsands oil’s the dirtiest kind Increasing CO2. Row, row, row your boat Through the oil and muck Leaking from the rusty pipes Covering every duck … We’ll be out of luck … Doesn’t that just suck!...
Read MoreSong for a Pipeline
Song for the Pipeline demo: (tune: Hokey Pokey) Pipelines leak, / We know they’re gonna leak Natural gas might dissipate, / Bitumen’s not so neat We’re tired of propaganda, / The truth we’re gonna speak Pipelines will leak! The land will fill with guck. / We’ll all be out of luck. It poisons the waterways, / And covers all the ducks We’re left with the clean up; / The companies get the bucks This truly sucks! The pipeline’s 55, / Its joints are gonna creak We’ve had replacement joints / We know they can be weak. Stand up...
Read More55 Years Old Pipeline
55 Years Old: (tune: Flying Trapeze) It’s 55 years since our gas pipe was laid Time to retire, it’s starting to fade Not feed it crude of the dirtiest grade Expecting that it will not blow. How fast can we sell all our assets away No jobs for refining the crude on the way And then Harper’s petro state’s well on the way And Canada hits a new low. Nobody knows what goes into the pipes Nobody knows it so nobody gripes But Naptha and Benzine are poisonous types That get that old tarsands to flow. And if it gets out as it certainly will No one has magic to clean up the...
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