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(tune:What A Friend We Have In Jesus:
Old hymn/union labour tune)
The Iraqi war is over
Disappeared from my TV
No more need for me to protest
Happy ending, don't you see?
Though the Patriot Act still crushes
Prisoners crowd Guantanamo Bay
Homeland spying haunts the neighbors
Bush says we have won the day.
Goodie, goodie, I can rest now
Invest my little pension too
Since those CEO's said sorry
Stock market's safe for me & you
Shopping's back to number one thing
Fills the hollow void inside
Stuff to help me to forget where
Bombs were dropped, Iraqis died.
Protest - just a fad that passes?
Or activist your whole life through?
Is it time to be a leader?
Won't a follower always do?
Will we see change in our lifetime?
Who remembers that we care?
History will surely tell us
That it mattered we were there
By Rose DeShaw
Kingston Ontario Raging Grannies
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