Global Divestment Day in Oxford on Feb 14

Global Divestment Day in Oxford on Feb 14

350

Chorus

350, (hi)350 we gotta get down to 350

350, (lo)350, we just gotta get back to 350

Men and women take turns on each verse,

1. WIf you wanna do something about climate change

M You gotta get down to 350

W 'Cos we're talkin' bout survival

M We gotta get.back to 350.

W and we're talkin' bout droughts and diseases

M We gotta get do to 350

W and we're talkin 'bout melting ice caps

MWe gotta get back to 350

Chorus

2. Men first, then women:

So here's a message for everyone - You..down..350

Get down and cut that carbon - We..back..350

Converging and contracting - We..down..350

make it fair, ambitious and binding - We..back..350

Chorus

Don't sing these verses

3.If you want sustainability, - You..down..350

If you care about social justice - We..back..350

If you care about your fellow man - We..down..350

so here's a message for everyone - We..back..350

4. Now we're singing with the farmers in Cameroon - You..down..350

and we're singing with the students in China - We..back..350

and we're singing with the church bells ringing - We..down..350

and we're joining with the Buddhists singing - We..back..350

Bella Ciao - Sing for the climate

1. We need to wake up, we need to rise up,

We need to open up our eyes and do it

NOW! NOW! NOW!

We need to build a better future, And we need to start right now.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

Ain't gonna study war no more - Anti-fracking

Sop and Alto

Lay down your rigs and drills, lay your drill rigs down,

Lay down your rigs by the riverside.

Bass

Gas, gas no more, gas, gas no more,

You're gonna lay your drill rigs down by the riverside.

(should perhaps be 'Lay down your rigs, lay down your rigs by the riverside'

so the words coincide on all verses).

Tenor

Ain't gonna frack for gas no more, (x2)

Lay down your rigs, lay down your rigs by the riverside.

CO2

sop and alto

Stop making CO2, insulate your homes,

give up your cars, take the bus and train

bass

Cars, planes no more, cars - planes no more,

give up your planes, give up your cars,

take the bus and train

tenor

Aint gonna make no CO2, Aint gonna make no CO2,

give up your cars, take the bus and train.

Asikatali - Anti Fracking -

Possible verse:

We must sell off our fossil fuel shares

And invest in a green world.

Chorus

Make them do it, dis invest

Sell off shares in coal and oil

1. We are the children of crazy times, and we shall stand up united, (x2)

Chorus: No fracking way, no fracking way,

Will we stand by in silence.

2. They want to drill under our land, but we shall stand up united (x2) No fracking way....

3. They want a world of fossil fuel, but we shall rise up united (x2) No fracking way...

Anti-Fracking Song - Singing for our lives -

(extra anti-fracking verse)

1. We are the Oxford SeaGreen Singers

and we are singing, singing for our lives.

. We are the Oxford SeaGreen Singers

and we are singing, singing for our lives.

2. We are a gentle angry people,

and we are singing for a frack-free world.

We are a gentle angry people,

and we are singingfor a frack-free world.

3. We are red and green together

and we are singing, singing for our lives (x2)

Climate Skeptic by Douglas Hamilton ©

Tune: Drunken sailor; V's: unison; ch: harmony

Chorus:

What can you do with a climate skeptic x3

If they won't shut up.

1. Tie up their assets in coastal property x3

Rising expectations

2. Put ‘em in a desert and ration their water x3

We’ll see how they like it.

3. Take ‘em to the artic and make ‘em tread water x3

‘Mongst the polar bears.

4. Lock ‘em in a room with nothing but money x3

See what good it does them

5. Make ‘em explain to their children’s children x3

Why they did not care.

Don't sing these songs

Green Song

1. The climate is changing, the ice caps are melting,

the waters are rising, What can we do

So many are fleeing from cyclones and flooding,

their islands submerging, What can they do

2. Our carbon emissions increase global warming,

the poor are those paying for damage we do.

Our companies are logging their forests destroying

their old ways of living, What can they do

3. The prospect's appalling, our leaders are stalling

so now we are calling for action from you.

We must begin acting to stop the exploiting

of earth and its beings. This we can do.

4. The people are rising and they are demanding

sustainable living and action from you.

So join the campaigning together we're striving

for just equal sharing in all that we do, Yes this we can do.

World Turned Upside Down - Anti - Fracking

Leon Rosselson (Tune: World Turned Upside Down)

1. They come like armies,they assault the land

They blast down vast amounts of water

toxic chemicals and sand,

To crack the rocks and win the prize

The shale gas they hope will see their profits rise

2. lines 1-2: women in harmony;

lines 3-4: tenor on tune, bass on bass part.

They say it's safe, nothing to fear.

But it doesn't take a fracking scientist to spot a bad idea

Why cant they see that it's insane

To heat the planet scar the earth, for short term gain?

3. Unison

Ask who will profit? Who pay the price?

This plot of earth they're violating isn't theirs to sacrifice

Just one small leak in the wells they sink

Will contaminate the water that we drink.

All in harmony

4 . Earth's buried treasures they take by force

But fracking uses so much water it depletes the water source

So now in Texas they're asking why

The shale gas flows while the water taps run dry.

5. lines 1-3: Sops sing all the words; Alto, Ten, Bass 'doo doo' or hum in harmony

line 4: all harmony

Let's choose clean water, let's choose clean air

Let's choose a future that's sustainable for everyone to share

Let's choose clean energy, there's much around

So we can keep those fossil fuels in the ground.