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Wake Up America # 2
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"This land is your land! This land is my land!
If we come together and work together, we can pull the weeds
that threaten to destroy our land! I hope and pray you understand.
We cannot reap a good harvest with
a bunch .... of .....bad .... seeds!
Wake up and shake it up America
from north to south from east to west
from sea to shining sea!
Our government is of, by, and for
we the people who can't ignore
that we shall reap what we sow,
so we better sow carefully!
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed "We are a government of the people,
by the people, and for the people,"
not of the corporations, by the corporations,
and for the corporations! He also observed,
"You can fool all the people some of the time
and some of the people all of the time,
but you can't fool all the people all of the time"!
Wake Up!
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Wake Up America # 1
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Welfare for the wealthy, debt, war, corruption,
treason and an open season on human rights
tears at the fabric of our nation, and the tragic realization
is that future generations will pay ....the .... big....price!!!
Wake up, shake it up America
Our government is of, by, and for
we the people who can't ignore
that we shall reap what we sow,
so we better sow carefully
Wake up and shake it up America
from north to south from east to west
from sea to shining sea!
Our government is of, by, and for
we the people who can't ignore
that we shall reap what we sow,
so we better sow carefully
Wake up and shake it up America
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Medicare for All 30-sec
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LET 'EM HEAR US!
MEDICARE for ALL because health care is a right!
MEDICARE for ALL time the U.S. saw the light
that every woman, child and man
should have health care in this land!
NOW’S THE TIME to finally put it on the table!
NOW’S THE TIME to finally put it on the table!
Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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Now’s the time to finally realize
we the people must make some choices!
If we want single-payer healthcare,
now’s the time to raise our voices
‘til they hear US in the halls of Government
and behind each corporate door
that we’re sick and tired of getting less and less
while paying more and more!!!
Put people before profit!
Join with many doctors, nurses,
and other concerned Americans
in support of America's best and
most affordable healthcare plan,
single-payer, improved Medicare for All!
LET ‘EM HEAR US!!!!
Medicare for ALL because healthcare is a right!
Medicare for ALL time the U.S. saw the light!
That the best healthcare plan
is a single-payer plan!
NOW’S THE TIME to finally put it on the table!
Contact your legislators and tell them
to save Medicare as we know it
and expand it into Medicare as we need it
improved Medicare for all
because YOUR interests are special, too!
by Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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Now’s the time to finally realize
we the people must make some choices!
If we want healthcare for ALL,
now’s the time to raise our voices
‘til they hear US in the halls of Government
and behind each corporate door
that we’re sick and tired of getting less and less
while paying more and more!!!
Put human need before corporate greed!
Join with many doctors, nurses,
and other concerned Americans
who believe healthcare is right
and without healthcare for all,
there is no Liberty and Justice for ALL!”
LET ‘EM HEAR US!!!!
Medicare for ALL because healthcare is a right!
Medicare for ALL time the U.S. saw the light!
that every woman, child, and man
should have healthcare in our land!
NOW’S THE TIME to finally put it on the table!
Contact your legislators and tell them
to save Medicare as we know it
and expand it into Medicare as we need it
improved Medicare for all
because YOUR interests are special, too!
by Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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Health care for all and all for one
would someone please help me see
why it works all around the world
but won’t work for you and me?
I know healthcare is big business;
A big business that’s quite healthy
but does it care about your health
or making its investors wealthy?
So what if losing everything you own is just a hospital visit away?
Has putting profit before people become the American way?
Just like big oil, big drug, and big insurance all agree!
It’s all about the money. They don’t care about you and me!
(Chorus)
Now’s the time for “we the people!”
Now’s the time to wake up this nation!
Now’s the time for “we the people!” NOW’S THE TIME!
Our tomorrows will depend on what we do today!
Let need, not greed, lead the way!
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7. |
Healthcare for All
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Now’s the time to finally realize
we the people must make some choices!
If we want Healthcare for All,
now’s the time to raise our voices
‘til they hear US in the halls of Government
and behind each corporate door
that we’re sick and tired of getting less and less
while paying more and more!!!
Put human need before corporate greed!
Join with many doctors, nurses,
and other concerned Americans
who believe Healthcare is right
and without Healthcare for All,
there is no Liberty and Justice for ALL!”
LET ‘EM HEAR US!!!!
Health Care for ALL because healthcare is a right!
Health Care for ALL time the U.S. saw the light!
that every woman, child, and man
should have Healthcare in this land!
NOW’S THE TIME to finally put it on the table!
Contact your legislators and neighbors
and tell them to support Healthcare for All
because Healthcare is a right,
and OUR interests are special, too!
Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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Should the leaders of a 'nation under God'
believe the end justifies any means
or make a mockery of truth and 'justice for all'
and take liberty with our rights and dreams?
What will become of Lady Liberty in the coming years?
Will her light be burning bright or be extinguished by the tears
Of those whose lives are torn apart by those too blind to see
That the words that follow 'under God'
are the words that could make us free!
We're never going to be indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,
'til the common good comes before party politics,
and for sale signs are banned in the halls of government.
If we're "one nation under God," God must be disappointed
unless the GOD OF ABUSE OF POWER AND GREED
was recently anointed!
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Somewhere, someplace, somehow seems
we've lost our American way
to pursuing liberty and justice for all, so while I can, I have to say,
for any patriotic, all American woman, child or man,
no flag should ever be more important
than the rights for which it stands!
What will become of Lady Liberty in the coming years?
Will her light be burning bright or be extinguished by the tears
Of those whose lives are torn apart by those too blind to see
That the words that follow 'under God'
are the words that could make us free!"
I say that the words that follow 'under God'
are the words that could make us free!"
With Liberty and Justice for All.
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We debate about healthcare, welfare, warfare,
child care, violence, and crime,
Guns and drugs and second-hand smoke
and daylight savings time,
Education, term limitation, where to cut and who to tax;
And children just keep on falling –
falling through the cracks!!
Children are the greatest gift! Their future is on the line!!
Their legacy is our words and deeds,
and we’re wasting precious time
as fires of ignorance, abuse, hate, and greed so deeply burn!!
For the sake of all the children, I pray someday we’ll learn!!
Now’s the time to put children first!
Now’s the time to build firm foundations!
Now’s the time to mold the future! Now’s the time!
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Now's the Time - Finale
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Now's the time (repeat 8x)
Now’s the time to put children first!
Now’s the time to build firm foundations!
Now’s the time to mold the future!
Now’s the time for cooperation!
Now’s the time to put children first!
Now’s the time for re-dedication!
Now’s the time to come together!
Now’s the time to heal our nation!
NOW’S THE TIME!
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We poison the air, we poison the land
and we poison the water we drink,
and we’re the only known creatures
in the whole universe
with the ability to think,
But we keep on thinking happiness lies in
how much we buy and sell,
and more and more of Paradise is lost
and only time will tell!
What will become of Mother Nature in the coming years
when we will have about 10 Billion neighbors on this sphere.
Will our children’s children wake up to the “American Dream?”
Or will it have become a nightmare beyond imagining!
Let’s take our heads out of the sand and open up our eyes!
Let’s take our heads out of the sand and finally realize!
That our tomorrows will depend on what we do today!
Let need not greed lead the way! Let need not greed lead the way!
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ENOUGH! PSA #1
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Too many people are gunned down in America
each and every day,
because guns are more protected
than people in the U.S.A.
If more guns could end gun violence,
America should be violence free,
cause there is no other nation with more guns and wmd.
There are many more sane solutions than more guns
and talking tough.
How many more guns? How many more dead?
Before we say
ENOUGH?
Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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ENOUGH! PSA #2
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Too many people are gunned down in America
each and every day,
because guns are more protected
than people in the U.S.A.
If more guns could end gun violence,
America should be violence free,
cause there is no other nation with more guns and wmd.
They risk our lives each time they kill
life-saving regulations
that protect, defend and guard us
from the greed of corporations.
Why do they protect life so religiously
from conception to a baby's birth
then ignore its health, safety and welfare
once it's born upon this earth?
There are many more sane solutions
than more guns and talking tough.
How many more guns? How many more dead?
Before we say
ENOUGH?
Now is the Time!
Bob Wickline / Cascade Moutain Music / ASCAP
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ENOUGH! PSA #3
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Too many people are gunned down in America
each and every day
because guns are more protected
than the people in the USA.
If more guns could end gun violence America
should be violence free
cause there is no other nation with more guns and wmd.
There's no other way to say it we've been lied to and misled
by puppet politicians. How many thousands must lay dead
before we wake up from this nightmare
to the a dawn of a new day
when putting people before profits
will become an American way?
Now's the time for we the people
to vote them out when they won't protect us.
Now's the time for we the people! Now's the time!
Our tomorrows will depend on what we do today
Let need, not greed, lead the way!
There are many more sane solutions
than more guns and talking tough.
How many more guns? How many more dead? Before we say
ENOUGH?!
Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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16. |
Spaceship Earth
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The Earth is like a spaceship
traveling through time and space.
The crew is every member of the human race.
Success or failure of the mission
will depend upon the crew
having the knowledge, skill, and empathy
to see the mission through.
Knowledge and skill without empathy
are as dark as dark can be!
Edison’s light bulb lights the world,
but many still don’t see
that everyone is different,
but everyone’s the same.
They laugh when they feel happy
and cry when they feel pain.
This century, empathy must finally find a place
in every human heart before we can start
to win……….. the human race!!
by Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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Destruction by obstruction is the Republican way
that they have gridlocked our government
then take pride in the fact that they
conspire against our country and we the people of this nation
when they conspire to sabotage every piece of legislation
that could create jobs and save more lives
and offer sane solutions
when all they have to offer is rhetorical pollution!
Rhetorical pollution that is slick and dark and dense
and it contaminates and poisons common good
and common sense!!
Now’s the time for we the people!
Now’s the time to vote ’em out!
Now’s the time for we the people!
NOW’S THE TIME!!
Our tomorrows will depend on what we do today!
Let need - not greed lead the way!
They protect life religiously from conception to a baby’s birth
Then ignore its health, safety, and welfare once it’s born…
upon this earth!
Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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The G.O.P. is a W.M.D.
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The G.O.P. is a WMD that spews hate, fear, and lies!
G.O.P. now stands for Gut, Obstruct, and Privatize!
They stand against most everything
we the people are standing for!
But when they threaten our health and security,
Now that's an act of war!!
Beware the wolf dressed in sheep's clothing
and the Fox who guards the hens
as webs of talking headed spiders
just spin & spin & spin and then abuse as they ooze
their hateful condemnation of our government of the people
and general welfare of our nation!!
Now's the time for we the people!
Now's the time to vote 'em out!
Now's the time for we the people!
Now's the time!
Our tomorrows will depend on
what we do today!!
Let need not greed lead the way!!
Seems welfare is a dirty word
when it helps the sick and needy!
But rationalized when it’s disguised
as tax cuts, tax breaks, loopholes, subsidies, buy-outs,
and bailouts for the rich… and corporate greedy!
Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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Greed and global climate change are just two problems we face
and if we can’t solve just those two we’ll lose the human race!
What will it take for us to wake before the tipping point is tipped
and we the people finally realize we the people have been
ripped off by the GOP!
It cannot stop! It is controlled by greed,
and I’m so frickin’ sick’n tired of gettin’ G.O.Peed!!
Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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Why is socialized such a dirty word
when it helps the sick and needy,
but rationalized when it's disguised
as tax cuts, tax breaks, loopholes
subsidies, buyouts and bailouts
for the rich and corporate greedy?
Greed and global climate change are just two problems we face
and if we can’t solve just those two we’ll lose the human race!
What will it take for us to wake before the tipping point is tipped
and we the people finally realize we the people have been
ripped off by the GOP!
It cannot stop! It is controlled by greed,
and I’m so frickin’ sick’n tired of gettin’ G.O.Peed!!
Bob Wickline / Cascade Mountain Music / ASCAP
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The words of Scrooge define the Republican Party of this nation!
No food or healthcare? Shut up and die!
"Decrease the surplus population!"
They protect life religiously from conception to a baby’s birth
then ignore its health, safety & welfare
once it’s born upon this earth!
Now’s the time for “we the people!”
Now’s the time to wake up this nation!
Now’s the time for “we the people!”
Now’s the time!
Our tomorrows will depend on what we do today!
Let need, not greed, lead the way.
Seems welfare is a dirty word when it helps the sick & needy
but rationalized when it’s disguised as tax cuts, tax breaks,
loopholes, subsidies, buyouts & bailouts…...
for the rich & corporate greedy!!
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