Songs They Sang At The Event!

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

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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