WAL-MART ** 2-7-04 ** WILPF
Singing out for justice and peace
TOO MUCH POWER (Gail Sredanovic)
Tune: Frère Jacques
Too much power, too much power
Wal-Mart Stores, Wal-Mart Stores
Drive all local business out
Drive working conditions down
Too much power, too much power
Bad for workers, bad for workers
Wal-Mart stores, Wal-Mart stores,
Fight unions illegally
Break the U.S. safety rules
Bad for workers, bad for workers.
HOW MUCH FOR THE CHEAP STUFF AT WAL-MART? (Gail Sredanovic)
Tune: How Much for the Doggy?
How much for the cheap stuff at your Wal-mart?
Cheap, but what is the human cost?
How much for that cheap stuff at your Wal-mart?
For cheapness what have folks lost?
How much are the wages at your Wal-Mart?
Is poverty level OK?
How much are the wages at your Wal-Mart?
Could you live on what workers are paid?
How much stuff at Wal-Mart comes from sweatshops?
Where even young kids slave all day.
How much stuff at Wal-Mart comes from sweatshops?
Are horrid conditions OK?
HARK, THE WAL-MART BANNERS SAY (Dan Rodman)
Tune: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing!
Hark, the Wal-Mart banners say
It's made in, the U.S.A.
But read the fine print and you'll see,
Most things come from overseas.
Sweatshop factories exploit children,
While Walton's rake in billions
Tell us where your factories are,
Do they exploit the world's poor?
Hark, to Wal-Mart, we do say,
People deserve a living wage!
Wal-Mart sweatshops won't stay secret,
We will let the world see.
We don't want our hard earned money
Siphoned off, by corporate greed!
We want human rights today,
Wal-Mart we won't go away!
Tell us where your factories are,
Do they exploit the world's poor?
Hark, to Wal-Mart, we do say,
People deserve a living wage!
AWAY IN A SWEATSHOP (Canadian Grannies)
Tune: Away in a Manger
Away in sweatshop where no one can see
The immigrant seamstresses work constantly
Conditions are awful, the pay is absurd
The boss he will fire them if they say a word.
Away in a fact'ry, an ocean away
Young girls making shoes for a dollar a day.
Please do not complain about exploitation
Cause this factory's in a Most Favored Nation.
Away in the Congress, the Senators fat
Count up their PAC dollars, pass NAFTA and GATT.
They couldn't care less about workers in need
They've traded their conscience to service their greed!
BAD NEWS (Shirley Powers)
Tune: Good News Chariot's Coming
Bad newsÉlow, low pay
Bad newsÉlow, low pay
Bad newsÉlow, low pay
And we're out here to change all of that.
Bad newsÉwhistle blowers fired É
Bad newsÉpredatory pricingÉ.
Bad newsÉ.sex discrimination
SAY NO TO WAL-MART (Rose DeShaw)
Tune: Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here
Wal-Mart is the problem here
Why the heck do we care?
'Cause they oughta play fair
Hail, Hail, a brand new day
When Wal-Mart learns another way!
(Repeat 3 times)
WE FEED THE CEO'S (Canadian Grannies)
Tune: It's off to work we go.
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, we feed the CEOs
We sweat and sew, they get the dough,
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Hi Ho,
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Our lives are full of woe
Our quotas grow, the more we sew
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Hi Ho,
Oh me, Oh my, we're worked until we die,
While profits go to CEOs,
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Hi Ho,
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, This system isn't fair,
Does anybody really care?
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Hi Ho,
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, The workers need more dough,
We fight for one, we fight for all,
Hi Ho, Hi Ho.
WORKERS FOR JUSTICE (Gail Sredanovic)
Tune: Yellow Rose of Texas
When workers are exploited, you save a buck or two
But think how you would feel if it were done to you
When workers have no health care, it's not just their concern
It hurts the whole community when they've nowhere to turn.
Estamos trabajando por la justicia
Queremos apollarlos en su buena lucha
Queremos beneficios para las familias
Vivimos todos juntos en la comunidad.
STOP SHOPPING (MI Grannies)
Tune: Clementine
Look at Wal-mart in your city
Where the people often shop
It's a store that sells cheap products
Made in foreign sweatshops.
(Chorus) So stop shopping at this Wal-mart
'Til it treats its workers well
And if Wal-mart won't cooperate
We will all shop somewhere else.
Its management whose treatment
Of the women is unfair
And the companies it deals with
End up losing their fair share.
(Chorus)
Living wage is not existent
They can never unionize
For if they tried they'd be fired
Please don't shop there we advise
(Chorus)
The Raging Grannies, P.O. Box 60851, Palo Alto, CA 94306-0851
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