words by Carole Rose Livingston
(c) 1992
tune: "The Drunken Sailor"
1.
What shall we do when he tries to block us (3X)
Early (pronounced "earl-lie") in the morning?
Chorus:
Hooray and up she rises (3X)
Early in the morning.
2.
Stick him in the cellar with a load of laundry (3X)
Early in the morning.
Chorus.
3.
What shall we do when he tries to knock us (3X)
Early in the morning?
Chorus.
4.
Sit him at a desk with a ton of typing (3X)
Early in the morning.
Chorus.
5.
What shall we do when he tries to mock us (3X)
Early in the morning?
Chorus.
6.
Strip him to his shorts and call him "sonny,"
Pinch him on the ass and call him "honey,"
Put him to work as a Playboy bunny
Early in the morning.
Chorus.
(Note: In the chorus of the original sea chantey, "she" refers to the sail.)
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
The RU 486 Waltz
words & tune (c) 1995
by Carole Rose Livingston
1.
RU 486, 486, 486.
RU 486, 486. It's not legal.
2.
Why not? Right-wing fanatics, right-wing fanatics, right-wing fanatics.
Why not? Right-wing fanatics, right-wing fanatics. It's not legal.
3.
I need RU 486, 486, 486.
I need RU 486, 486. Make it legal.
4.
RU 486, 486, 486.
I need RU 486, 486. Make it legal.
by Carole Rose Livingston
1.
RU 486, 486, 486.
RU 486, 486. It's not legal.
2.
Why not? Right-wing fanatics, right-wing fanatics, right-wing fanatics.
Why not? Right-wing fanatics, right-wing fanatics. It's not legal.
3.
I need RU 486, 486, 486.
I need RU 486, 486. Make it legal.
4.
RU 486, 486, 486.
I need RU 486, 486. Make it legal.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
POWer to the People
1.
Power, I say POWer to the people. (3x)
We're gonna light up our own lives.
2.
Power, I say POWer to the women...
3.
Power, I say POWer to the children...
4.
Power, I say POWer to the workers...
5.
Power, I say POWer to the prisoners...
6.
Etc...
Final line:
We're gonna light up (3x) our own lives.
words & tune by
Carole Rose Livingston
(c) 1981 (June 5th)
Power, I say POWer to the people. (3x)
We're gonna light up our own lives.
2.
Power, I say POWer to the women...
3.
Power, I say POWer to the children...
4.
Power, I say POWer to the workers...
5.
Power, I say POWer to the prisoners...
6.
Etc...
Final line:
We're gonna light up (3x) our own lives.
words & tune by
Carole Rose Livingston
(c) 1981 (June 5th)
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Penelope's Lament
He shall sail the seven seas,
I shall stay at home.
He shall drink in strange cities,
I shall drink alone.
He shall stride over foreign soil,
And dance upon the wave.
I shall sit, and spin, and toil--
They will call him brave.
Words & music by Carole Rose Livingston, based on Dorothy Parker's poem "Penelope"; Also inspsired by the title of Peggy Seeger's record album "Penelope isn't waiting anymore". (c) 1992
I shall stay at home.
He shall drink in strange cities,
I shall drink alone.
He shall stride over foreign soil,
And dance upon the wave.
I shall sit, and spin, and toil--
They will call him brave.
Words & music by Carole Rose Livingston, based on Dorothy Parker's poem "Penelope"; Also inspsired by the title of Peggy Seeger's record album "Penelope isn't waiting anymore". (c) 1992
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Nobody Needs a Nuke (a.k.a. Everyone Needs A Hug and a Kiss)
words by Carole Rose Livingston
(c) 1986
tune: Here We Go Loop-de-loo
1.
Everyone needs a job.
Everyone needs some food.
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
Nobody needs a nuke.
Nobody needs a nuke (uh uh).
Nobody needs a nuke (un un).
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
Nobody needs a nuke.
2.
Everyone needs the rain.
Everyone needs the sun.
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
Nobody needs the bomb.
Nobody needs the bomb (uh uh).
Nobody needs the bomb (un un).
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
Nobody needs the bomb.
3.
Everyone needs a roof.
Everyone needs a floor.
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
No one needs nuclear war.
No one needs nuclear war (uh uh).
No one needs nuclear war (un un).
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
No one needs nuclear war.
4.
Everyone needs the ground, the earth.
Everyone needs a flower.
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
No one needs nuclear power.
No one needs nuclear power (uh uh).
No one needs nuclear power (un un).
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
No one needs nuclear power.
5.
Everyone needs some love.
Everyone needs some friends.
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
And a song about peace without end.
A song about peace without end (uh huh).
A song about peace without end (um hm).
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss,
And a song about peace without end.
(1st ending:)
So
We'll sing it all over again.
(2nd ending:)
And
That's how the so-o-ong ends.
This is a game for kids (also a rally song for grown-ups) in which each line can be accompanied by the appropriate gesture or sound. It can be performed in a circle or with a leader facing a semicircle or audience.
(c) 1986
tune: Here We Go Loop-de-loo
1.
Everyone needs a job.
Everyone needs some food.
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
Nobody needs a nuke.
Nobody needs a nuke (uh uh).
Nobody needs a nuke (un un).
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
Nobody needs a nuke.
2.
Everyone needs the rain.
Everyone needs the sun.
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
Nobody needs the bomb.
Nobody needs the bomb (uh uh).
Nobody needs the bomb (un un).
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
Nobody needs the bomb.
3.
Everyone needs a roof.
Everyone needs a floor.
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
No one needs nuclear war.
No one needs nuclear war (uh uh).
No one needs nuclear war (un un).
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
No one needs nuclear war.
4.
Everyone needs the ground, the earth.
Everyone needs a flower.
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
No one needs nuclear power.
No one needs nuclear power (uh uh).
No one needs nuclear power (un un).
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
No one needs nuclear power.
5.
Everyone needs some love.
Everyone needs some friends.
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss.
And a song about peace without end.
A song about peace without end (uh huh).
A song about peace without end (um hm).
Everyone needs a hug and a kiss,
And a song about peace without end.
(1st ending:)
So
We'll sing it all over again.
(2nd ending:)
And
That's how the so-o-ong ends.
This is a game for kids (also a rally song for grown-ups) in which each line can be accompanied by the appropriate gesture or sound. It can be performed in a circle or with a leader facing a semicircle or audience.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
No More
No more crack cocaine for me,
No more, no more.
No more crack cocaine for me.
Many thousands gone.
No more alcohol for me....
No more heroin for me....
No more needles shared for me....
No more unsafe sex for me....
After the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), the original song, "No More Auction Block for Me," was sung by former slaves fighting in the Civil War. The stanzas include "No more auction block for me," "No more driver's lash for me," "No more pint of salt for me," and "No more peck of corn for me." Today's forms of enslavement call forth the updated words. (You might add "cigarettes" after "alcohol," but I can't, because I still smoke.)
Updated words, 1993,
by Carole Rose Livingston,
in honor of Black History Month
No more, no more.
No more crack cocaine for me.
Many thousands gone.
No more alcohol for me....
No more heroin for me....
No more needles shared for me....
No more unsafe sex for me....
After the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), the original song, "No More Auction Block for Me," was sung by former slaves fighting in the Civil War. The stanzas include "No more auction block for me," "No more driver's lash for me," "No more pint of salt for me," and "No more peck of corn for me." Today's forms of enslavement call forth the updated words. (You might add "cigarettes" after "alcohol," but I can't, because I still smoke.)
Updated words, 1993,
by Carole Rose Livingston,
in honor of Black History Month
Saturday, December 26, 2009
My O My O Myomectomy
by Carole Rose Livingston
(c) 1993
Refrain:
My o my o myomectomy,
I don't need a hysterectomy.
Doctor, do not bash or batter me.
Do not mess with my anatomy.
1.
My womb is made for childbearing.
Probably I won't need a caesarean.
I can't push the baby outta me.
I won't need an episiotomy.
Refrain.
2.
My nourishing breasts don't need reduction
So I don't need lyposuction,
And in this erogenous zone
I surely don't need silicone.
Refrain.
3.
If a knife-wielding mugger leapt out of an alley,
Cut up my face and stole my money,
He wouldn't call himself an MD,
And advertise it on TV.
Refrain.
4.
Doctor, do not do me injury
With unnecessary surgery.
If you harm my parts obstetrical,
I'll sue you for an arm and a leg -- and a testicle.
Refrain.
Coda:
My o my o myomectomy. (2X)
At least half of all hysterectomies are entirely unnecessary. The majority of the unnecessary ones are performed because of the presence in, or on, the uterus of benign tumors called fibroids.
The operation to remove fibroids from the uterus is called a myomectomy. It is not a new procedure; myomectomies have been performed since 1921. Yet most people have never heard this word.
It galls me that practically everyone in the world knows the word "hysterectomy" and almost no one has ever heard the word "myomectomy." I live for the day that everyone knows what a myomectomy is, and most people look bewildered when they hear the word "hysterectomy."
A myomectomy can be performed even when the fibroid is "the size of a grapefruit." This I know from personal experience. In 1980, four fibroids were removed from my uterus. The largest was the size of a grapefruit.
Not all fiborids need to be surgically removed. Some remain small, causing no discomfort. Some shrink and disappear by themselves. Some may do so after dietary changes.
Many women are told that for the removal of a fiborid their only option is a hysterectomy. Any woman so advised has not been provided with sufficient information to give her informed consent to surgery.
(c) 1993
Refrain:
My o my o myomectomy,
I don't need a hysterectomy.
Doctor, do not bash or batter me.
Do not mess with my anatomy.
1.
My womb is made for childbearing.
Probably I won't need a caesarean.
I can't push the baby outta me.
I won't need an episiotomy.
Refrain.
2.
My nourishing breasts don't need reduction
So I don't need lyposuction,
And in this erogenous zone
I surely don't need silicone.
Refrain.
3.
If a knife-wielding mugger leapt out of an alley,
Cut up my face and stole my money,
He wouldn't call himself an MD,
And advertise it on TV.
Refrain.
4.
Doctor, do not do me injury
With unnecessary surgery.
If you harm my parts obstetrical,
I'll sue you for an arm and a leg -- and a testicle.
Refrain.
Coda:
My o my o myomectomy. (2X)
At least half of all hysterectomies are entirely unnecessary. The majority of the unnecessary ones are performed because of the presence in, or on, the uterus of benign tumors called fibroids.
The operation to remove fibroids from the uterus is called a myomectomy. It is not a new procedure; myomectomies have been performed since 1921. Yet most people have never heard this word.
It galls me that practically everyone in the world knows the word "hysterectomy" and almost no one has ever heard the word "myomectomy." I live for the day that everyone knows what a myomectomy is, and most people look bewildered when they hear the word "hysterectomy."
A myomectomy can be performed even when the fibroid is "the size of a grapefruit." This I know from personal experience. In 1980, four fibroids were removed from my uterus. The largest was the size of a grapefruit.
Not all fiborids need to be surgically removed. Some remain small, causing no discomfort. Some shrink and disappear by themselves. Some may do so after dietary changes.
Many women are told that for the removal of a fiborid their only option is a hysterectomy. Any woman so advised has not been provided with sufficient information to give her informed consent to surgery.
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