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...
Read MoreMuzzling Scientists
to the tune of I’ve Been Working on the Railroad They’ve been working on the science In a conscientious way Searching out the facts and figures Just to make things clear as day Monitoring fish and wildlife Testing streams and lakes Climate change is having impacts We must put on the brakes! But then it’s: (chorus) Harper says SHUT UP Harper says SHUT UP Harper says SHUT UP YOUR FACE! Harper says SHUT UP Harper says SHUT UP Harper’s a disgrace! All the data they discover Should be out there for everyone Students, public and the media That’s...
Read MoreOur Nation’s Reputation
to the tune of John Brown’s Body (Battle Hymn of the Republic) Our nation’s reputation has just gone up in smoke. Our scientists are muzzled – is this some kind of joke? Librarians and researchers cannot discuss their work Without the OK from their boss – as if they’re only clerks! Chorus: We’re demanding free expression. This is unbearable oppression. Harper, you need to learn your lesson Just let them speak out loud! You’ve canned the research institutes whose job is to collect Environmental data that has earned the world’s respect But...
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