Sea Shanties

Bully in the Alley

(Chorus) Hell no Black Rock we don’t want your pipelines
Way hey we don’t want your pipelines
Hell no Black Rock we don’t want your pipelines
Put em where the sun don’t shine

We’ve got wind and we’ve got solar
Way hey, we don’t want your pipelines
leave the oil and leave the coal or
Put it where the sun don’t shine

Toxic crap is all you sell us
Way hey we don’t want your pipelines
Clean coal and clean gas you tell us
Put it where the sun don’t shine

You use lies to clear invasions
Way hey we don’t want your pipelines
Killing all but rich caucasians
Put em where the sun don’t shine

We declare a climate crisis
Way hey we don’t want your pipelines
More will die from this than Isis
Put it where the sun don’t shine

Roll the Old Chariots

We’d be all right with the sun to light our way (3x)
If the oil stayed in the ground

(Chorus)
And we'll blow the ol' planet earth alarm
And we'll blow the ol' planet earth alarm
And we'll blow the ol' planet earth alarm
For Extinction Rebellion

We’d be all right with the wind to run our tools (3x)
If the oil stayed in the ground

We’d be all right if all plastics were outlawed (3x)
and the oil stayed in the ground

An ending to big oil wouldn’t do us any harm (3x)
We say keep it in the ground

Digging Us a Hole

By Melodeego

They are digging us a hole
Digging us a hole
Six feet underground where the pipeline will go
They are digging us a hole
Digging us a hole
Six feet underground where the future will go

The oil man is selling out our future
The bankman, the congressman, too
But our lives are not for sale
And their lies will not prevail
We will stand up and fight for what is true

They are digging us a hole
They are digging us a hole
Six feet underground where the pipeline will go
They are digging us a hole
They are digging us a hole
Six feet underground where the future will go
We will lay down our bodies
We will lay down our souls
No we won't stand by and watch
While they dig us a hole

We will lay down in front of your bulldozers
We will lay down on the frontlines
We will lay down for the children
Victims of the system
We will never lay down and die

They are digging us a hole
They are digging us a hole
Six feet underground where the pipeline will go

One by one, we will fight til this is done
Two by two, we won't listen to these fools
Ten by ten, we will stand hand in hand
One thousand here, we don't have any fear
10,000 sing, while the justice bell it rings
One million won't step back, we will stop this in it's tracks

We will lay down our bodies
We will lay down our souls
No we won't stand by and watch
While they dig us a hole

Amazing Waste

Words by Gabriel Robinson

Amazing waste, how high the mound
of bodies from the sea
Right wales, monk seals, and albatross,
Blue fin and manatee

The sea she gave us everything
and more than what we need
We killed her fish with toxic blooms
to make our lawns look green

It took ten thousand years or more
to grow the coral reefs
Now half are dead, the rest will die
With more acidity

Amazing waste, how hurt the heart
To see your creatures go
Walrus, penguin, and polar bear
Our kids may never know

Tis carbon fuels our factories
And makes our cars to go
When carbon kills off everything
Will we say we did not know?

Amazing waste, how cruel the sight
Of bodies from the sea
Blue wales, fin wales, and killer wales
We would not stop for thee

Our plastic fills your bodies now
You cannot choke it down
But plastic can’t replace the world
Without the sea we drown

To fill this awful emptiness
And halt this dreadful waste
Rebel, rebel the time is now
Restore the ocean’s grace
Rebel, rebel we must act now
To save the human race

The Earth, She Is Not Property

The earth, she is not property
The earth, she is alive
The earth, she is not property
The earth, she is alive

And we don’t own the land no
We don’t own the water
We don’t own the air no
We don’t own the fire

The Voice of my Great Granddaughter

By Peace Poets

People gonna rise like the water
Gonna calm this crisis down

I hear the voice of my great granddaughter
Singing keep it in the ground

Do It Now

We need to wise up
We need to open our eyes
And do it now now now
We need to build a better future
And we need to start right now

We’re on a planet
That has a problem
We’ve got to solve it, get involved
And do it now now now
We need to build a better future
And we need to start right now

Make it greener
Make it cleaner
Make it last, make it fast
and do it now now now
We need to build a better future
And we need to start right now

No point in waiting
Or hesitating
We must get wise, take no more lies
And do it now now now
We need to build a better future
And we need to start right now