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Climate change is coming to town

You better watch out
You better not lie
You better act now
I’m telling you why
Climate change is coming to town

Glaciers are melting
Forests are burning
Oceans and fish are full of our garbage
Climate change is coming to town

We know it’s so much easier
To deny the emergency
But we cannot just stand by and watch
While we are running out of time

Oh! You better watch out
You better not lie
You better act now
I’m telling you why
Climate change is coming to town

Cities awash
Smog in the air
This is not fair
We all have to care
Climate change is coming to town

We see you when you’re hiding
Pretending it’s not true
Yet when December is as hot as May
Disobedience is the way!

Sooo you better watch out
You better not lie
You better act now I’m telling you why
Climate change is coming
Climate change is coming
Climate change is coming to toooown!

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Blowing in the wind

How many years can climate heat up
Before the Earth gives it up?
How many tons of plastic will go
Before it’s forever banned?
Yes ‘n’ how many years will we still pollute
And pretend that we don’t really see?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Now many poisons can the earth take in
Before our children get ill?
How many years will it take to our lands
Before they are turned into sand?
Yes, ‘n’ how many times should scientists cry
Before we wake up and stand?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

How many years can climate heat up
Before the Earth gives it up?
How many tons of plastic will go
Before it’s forever banned?
Yes ‘n’ how many years will we still pollute
And pretend that we don’t really see?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Music: Bob Dylan
New Lyrics: XR Switzerland

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O come all Ye Rebels

1. O come all ye rebels, hopeful and determined,
O come ye, O come ye to sound the alarm.
Sing with one voice that this is an emergency,

O come let us amuse them
O come let us enrage them
O come let us engage them
To heed our demands.

2. We call for justice, justice for the planet,
We call for ecocide to be outlawed.
We call on leaders to wake up and make
changes
O come …

3. Halt global warming, stop oil exploration,
Halt big developments & keep the planet green
Stop all this nonsense constantly distracting us,
O come …

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In a carbon free society

1. Unison:
How many types of local fruit and veg
In a car­bon neutral soci­ety?
Here’s all the places we can grow our food
In a car­bon neutral soci­ety
Apple trees along the street,
win­dow boxes full of wheat
Beans in the back,
Green-peas in the park
There’s a busy local mar­ket full of local food
In a car­bon neutral society

2. Harmony
How many types of trans­port do we have
In a car­bon neutral soci­ety
Here’s all the ways that we can get about
In a car­bon neutral soci­ety
Bicycles for all to share,
pub­lic trans­port every­where
Cars run­ning on clean energy
Oh there’s bike paths and bus lanes
and dan­cing in the street
In a car­bon neutral society

3. Harmony
How many ways of mak­ing energy
In a car­bon neutral soci­ety
Here’s how we make all the power that we need
In a car­bon neutral soci­ety
Wind­mills turn­ing on the hill,
solar power for when it’s still
Geo thermal heat­ing, hydro schemes,
Oh we’re cosy and warm in our insu­lated homes
In a car­bon neutral society

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Down where the trees are tall (Down by the river side)

1. Gotta get to those tropic lands
Down where the trees are tall, down where the trees are tall.
Gotta get to those tropic lands
Down where the trees are tall.

Chorus:
Don’t want no clearances no more, don’t want no soya fields no more,
Down where the trees are tall, tall, tall.
Don’t want no clearances no more, don’t want no palm oil farms no more,
Down where the trees are tall

2. ‘Cos they’re pumping out fresh new air,
Out from those trees so tall, out from those trees so tall.
Gonna breathe me some fresh new air
Out from those trees so tall.

3. Gonna dance in the rain and mist
Down where the trees are tall, down where the trees are tall.
Let the forest folk long exist
Down where the trees are tall.

Tune: Down by the river side

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Transition Town Medley

1. We’ll dig the soil and plant our seeds
We’ll dig the soil and plant our seeds
We wanna eat a local diet
We’ll dig the soil and plant our seeds
(Tune : Oh When the Saints)

2. Wind­mills and solar power
Com­ing forth to power my home
Wind­mills and solar power
Com­ing forth to power my home
(Tune: Swing Low Sweet Chariot)

3. Take the train, train, train
Take the bus, bus, bus,
Take the train, take the bus,
Ride your bike
When the aero­planes are gone
I’ll stop singing you this song
Take the train, take the bus,
Ride your bike

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Marketing is Everywhere (Good King Wenceslas)

1. Politicians are distressed,
See their assets stranded.
Tell their counsellors “Divest!”
As the folk demanded.
There’s no money making here,
Climate change is cru-el
Change the pension, bring us cheer,
No more fossil fuels.

2. Marketing is everywhere
Leading up to Christmas.
Greedy corporations know
It’s time to do big business.
Selling things that no-one needs
Pulling in more profit
It’s a silly fairground ride
We should all get off it.

3. Present shopping is a chore
If you choose to do it.
Opting out or making things
Bids a farewell to it.
No more rush and no more crush
No more blind complying.
No more on your credit cards
No more panic buying

4. Give the gift of love this year
Resist commercial forces.
You will be far happier
And save the world’s resources.
Sing this message loud and proud
Less stuff and more caring.
Love and time and hope are free,
Help the world we’re sharing

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Turn this mess around (Winter Wonderland)

Sirens wail, are you listening?
In the sea, plastic’s glistening,
With forests ablaze
We can’t stand and gaze,
Gotta turn this global mess around.

Say goodbye to the old days,
Say hello to some new ways,
Determined and strong
As we go along,
Working hard to turn this mess around.

Citizens’ assembly will connect us,
And help us make a plan that is agreed.
Nothing we encounter will deflect us,
People know what other people need.

After time, we’ll remember
How we sang in December,
The effort we made
To face unafraid
What it took to turn this mess around.

Tune: Winter Wonderland

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Silent night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pwvH6XOMVc

1. Silent night, lonely night.
All the floods what a sight.
Houses, towns and whole countries,
all underwater and no more trees.
Nowhere safe to go.
Nowhere left to call home.

2. Silent night, lonely night.
All we do now is fight.
Not enough food for everyone,
the fertile land has almost gone.
Our children ask us why,
all we can do is cry.

3. Silent night, lonely night.
The activists it seems were right.
Let’s send a message to 2019,
telling them the things we’ve seen.
A change they still can make,
a different path they can take.

Lyrics: Jess Lichtenstern

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Jingle Bells

Chorus
Warning bells, warning bells
Ring them loud and clear
Climate crisis looms ahead
The tipping point is near
Warning bells, warning bells
Ring them loud and clear
This is an emergency
The time to act is here

Verse
Polar ice and snow
Melting by the day
If we let them go
Trouble’s here to stay (take warning) Famine, drought and floods
Will affect us all
We’ve twelve years to put it right
So listen to our call.

Oh! Warning bells, warning bells ….