Author: Basso Profundo

If I had to rise up now
I would do it for the Mothers
they deserve the best.

Music & Lyrics: Claire Ingleheart

Oh ’round mother earth,
bringer into birth,
sweet creatress of the night and day,
bring your spirit through,
rest our thoughts in you,
guide our feet in the natural way

Theo Simon

1. We’re standing here, for this is an emergency
We’re standing here, for all that we hold dear
We’re standing here, for beauty and diversity
And we’re standing in the love that binds us all *

2. And we demand, our government must tell the truth
And they must act, as if the truth is real
And we demand, a Citizens Assembly
To urgently, create a Green New Deal

3. We’re rising up! We stand here in rebellion!
And we declare, that ecocide’s a crime
In love and rage, and peaceful disobedience
The signs are clear we’re running out of time

* all the way through twice then end here

Owly Dave

We got all the [love] all that we need
to change our world, Hallelullia!
We got all the [love] all that we need
blessed be, mmm

H. Yeomans

1. I won’t, let the sea at my shore
Be a home, for our waste, no not anymore
I won’t let, the trees green and tall
Be cut down, for profit, I won’t watch them fall.

2. I won’t, let the air that I breathe
Be so full of, pollution, from all the industry
For we need, to work side by side
We can’t tell, our children, that we have not tried.

3. I won’t, let the earth where we stand
Be disrupted, corrupted, by our human hand
You can’t run, nor can you hide away
Don’t wait for, tomorrow, we’re needed today.

4. For it’s time, be the voice of change
Come together, stand together, here we will remain
Put the earth first, like they did long before
For my soul and your soul, live deep in her core.
For my soul and your soul, live deep in her core.
For my soul and your soul, live deep in her core.

Claire Ingleheart and Jaime Lock
Commissioned by: Dreadnought South West

1. Take me home to the motherland
2. We’ll be singin’ in the motherland
3. There’ll be joy in the motherland
4. There’ll be prayin’ in the motherland (sing softly)
5. There’ll be love in the motherland
6. There’ll be peace in the motherland
7. We’ll be free in the motherland

H. Yeomans

1. Leave the oil in the ground, sing out now, sing out now!
Leave the oil in the ground, sing out now!
For a future – clean and fair full of life for all to share,
we can show the world we care, no more carbon in the air,
leave the oil in the ground

2. Leave the gas beneath the sea, sing out now, sing out now!
Leave the gas beneath the sea, sing out now!
This is an emergency, limit change to two degrees
This earth’s our treasury, so leave a hopeful legacy
Leave the gas beaneath the sea

3. Leave the coal in the seam, sing out now, sing out now!
Leave the coal in the seam, sing out now!
Let us turn our planet green, making energy that’s clean
Sun and wind and tidal schemes, come let’s realise our dream
Leave the coal in the seam

4. You gentle people all sing out now, sing out now!
You gentle people all sing out now!
This planet to maintain, profiteering we disdain
Shameless companies we name, public ownership we claim
Leave the oil in the ground

Music: 17th century melody arr. Kate Howard
Original words: Gerard Winstanley
New words: Jane Lewis

Imagine there’s no pollution
It’s easy if you try
Above us, only stars
Below us, no toxic waste
Imagine lands and oceans pure and clean again
Ah …

Imagine no greenhouse gas
It isn’t hard to do
No more fear for climate
And for our children too
Imagine all the creatures with a future again
You …

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
For the sake of humankind.

Imagine no consumption
I wonder if you can
No need for cars or chain-killing
A brotherhood of creatures
Imagine all of nature sharing all the earth
You …

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
For the sake of humankind.

New Lyrics: XR Switzerland

We need to wake up
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