CODEPINK: WOMEN FOR PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Room 507 Washington, DC 20005 CODEPINK: [email protected] 202.393.5016 WOMEN FOR PEACE www.codepinkalert.org AND JUSTICE SONGS OF CELEBRATION AND PROTEST Songs of O deep… Inspiration
CHORUS We have broken thru our shackles, now we sing a battle song We march for liberation 1. Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody and we’re many thousand strong We’ll build a new society, Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around we’ve waited much too long. Turn me around! (x3) CHORUS Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around I’m gonna keep on a-walkin’, keep on a-talkin’, Marchin’ to a peaceful land! Additional Verses: Ain’t gonna let this war talk turn me around… 17. Saints—Human Rights (Tune: When the Saints Come Marching In) Additional Verses: no violence, no terror, no war plan, George Dub-ya, No Patriot Act, When everyone has equal rights, When everyone has equal rights, Oh, how I want to be in that number, When everyone has equal rights. 2. We Shall Overcome Additional Verses: When immigrants are treated fair… 1. We shall overcome, we shall overcome When profiling has been wiped out… We shall overcome someday When health care is a right for all… O deep in my heart I do believe, When health care is a right for all… We shall overcome someday! When corporate rule is history… 2. We are not afraid (x3) today! O deep in my heart… 3. God will see us through (x3) today! O deep… 4. We walk hand in hand (x3) someday! O deep… 5. The truth shall make us free (x3) someday! O deep… 6. We shall live in peace (x3) someday! O deep… 18. FCC Hokey Pokey 7. The whole wide world around (x3) someday! You take Clear Channel, You take the FCC And when you put the two together Get a clear monopoly. You think that you can buy us off with crummy wedding rings Mass deregulation of the mass communication You never give us half the profit Is the end of democracy! that our labor brings Our anger eats into us, we no longer bow to kings. 16. The Battle Hymn of Women
3. I’ve Got Peace Like a River Mine eyes have seen the glory —Marvin V. Frey of the flame of women’s rage I’ve got peace like a river, I’ve got peace like a river, Kept smoldering for centuries, I’ve got peace like a river in my soul now burning in this age I’ve got peace like a river, I’ve got peace like a river, We no longer will be prisoners I’ve got peace like a river in my soul. in that same old gilded cage That’s why we’re marching on Additional Verses: Move on over or we’ll move on over you I’ve got love like an ocean, For women’s time has come! I’ve got joy like a fountain
You have told us to speak softly, to be gentle and to smile Expected us to change ourselves 4. Never Turning Back with every passing style —Pat Humphries Said the only work for women We’re gonna keep on walking forward was to clean and sweep and file Keep on walking forward (x2) CHORUS Never turning back (x2) Additional Verses: It is we who’ve done your cooking, Gonna keep on walking proudly (x3) done your cleaning, kept your rules Gonna keep on singing loudly… We gave birth to all your children Gonna reach across our borders… and we taught them in your schools Gonna keep on loving boldly… We’ve kept the system running Gonna work for change together… but we’re laying down our tools Gonna show our children courage… CHORUS And if we all rise up together, Brothers, Sisters with one voice. 5. Went down to the White House We’ll build a new world together Well I, went down to the White House Of peace and love of our choice. And I took back what they’d taken from me I took back, took back my dignity. (Chorus) I took back, took back humanity And now it’s under my feet, under my feet, under my feet. Ain’t gonna let nobody walk all over me. 7. Phoenix We are rising up like a Phoenix from the fire Brothers and sisters spread your wings and fly higher
ongs from the Sisters 14. War Business S (Tune: There’s No Business Like Show Business)
There’s no business like war business, The best business we know. Never mind the homeless and hungry! 6. Rise Up Never mind the people without jobs! -- Victoria Cunningham Nowhere can you get that special feeling Like when you’re dropping lots of bombs… (Chorus) You better rise up, All you people There’s no business like war business, Gonna Rise up, And have your say The best business we know. Better rise up, All you people Paying for those missiles is a lot of bucks, Rise up, And stand for peace today! It seems a lot, but golly shucks, Oil is the thing that we are fighting for! Because today we’re building our tomorrow Let’s get on with the war! Let’s get on with the war! With every action, every word So if you want a better tomorrow You better rise today and be heard. 15. Getting Together (Tune: I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover) (Chorus) What’s been preventing The world from getting And we will all be safe Together as friend to friend? And the women and children will all be safe. Could it be language? We’ll learn to translate. We rule the world, with bombs and tanks Might be religion— Let the war hawks sing. No reason to hate… Yes, we’ll target hospitals And mosques and pesky journalists Couldn’t be color With all the wonderful And lie on CNN Shades of the human skin? And lie on CNN Let’s be forgetting And lie, and lie on CNN What’s been preventing And invite the whole world in! War to the world, the empire reigns You’re with us or against us We’re good and you are evil We’re good and you are evil We’ll blow you all away We’ll blow you all away Raging So Merry Christmas and have a nice day.
8. Tell Me Please and other Grannies -Victoria Cunningham
There must be someone who can explain, variations why this world is going insane. Tell me someone I’ll ask you once more, just why are we going, are we going to war?
13. War to the World! Don’t say we’re standing for human rights (Sung to the tune of “Joy to the World”) Don’t say we haven’t bombed them already at night War to the world! Donald Rumsfeld declares; And don’t say its them that’s causing this fight Let’s go to war for oil What kind of reason is preemptive strike Arms dealers and oil companies Well, I’ll tell you the reason I’ve got in my head Will make our foreign policies Why so many soldiers will wind up dead And we will all be safe Some people have oil, some people want more And that’s why we’re marching we are marching to war. Tell me please who can explain why this world is going 11. Let’s Get Together insane —Chet Powers Tell me please I’ll ask you once more just why are we going are we going to war Love is but a song we sing, fear’s the way we die You can make the mountains ring or make angels cry Tho’ the bird is on the wing and you may not know why 9. Courage, Sister Courage, Sister you do not walk alone. C’mon people now, smile on your brother We will walk with you and guide your spirit home. Ev’rybody get together, try to love one another, right now!
10. Web of Justice Some will come and some will go, we shall surely pass -- Starhawk When the one that left us here, returns for us at last We are but a moment’s sunlight, fading in the grass We are a circle within a circle with no beginning and Chorus never ending. (Repeat) If you hear the song I sing, you will understand Breath by breath, Step by step You hold the key to love and fear in your trembling hand Conjure Justice weave our web (Repeat) Just one key unlocks them both, it’s there at your command. Oldies, but goodies! ______
12. Blowing in the Wind —Bob Dylan 1. How many roads must a man walk down, Before they call him a man How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand. How many times must the cannonballs fly, Before they are forever banned. The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind The answer is blowing in the wind.
2. How many years must a mountain exist, Before it is washed to the sea How many years can some people exist, Before they’re allowed to be free How many times can a man turn his head, And pretend that he just doesn’t see. Chorus
3. How many times must a man look up, Before he can see the sky How many years must one man have, Before he can hear people cry How many deaths will it take till he knows, That too many people have died. Chorus