ME AND YOU – I don’t need you to “see it my way”, but I do need you to at least “see my way.” Me And You If you’d been through what (079900) I’ve been through (079800) If you grew up like me A(077699)-E(076900) Then you would do what I do A(077699)-E(076900) Instead of what […]
Audience: Law Enforcement/Prisons
Just Capital
JUST CAPITAL – A woman on television stood with her grown children in the rubble of her destroyed home. “I wish I was dead!” she said, “I have no reason to live!” Horrible as it was, I felt someone had sold a ‘bill of goods’ to this woman about what was really important in her […]
Good Book
GOOD BOOK – Jamila Raqib works with Gene Sharp, whose books have been used by many organizers of recent non-violent people’s protests, helping them learn how to overthrow their dictators. GOOD BOOK Cho1: Read a good book, you should read this Good book if you live with a dictator! Read a good book, it can […]
Hollaback
Hollaback in an organization founded by Emily May. She and hundreds of other women and men from all over the world use cel phones, social media and legislative pressure to raise awareness about, and stop street harassment. HOLLABACK (to the tune of Lollipop) Chorus Holla-back, Holla-back, oh Holla, holla, holla G-Em-C-D7 Holla-back, Holla-back, */oh Holla, […]
Let’s Not Do This Anymore
LET’S NOT DO THIS ANYMORE – on a camping with my family, a domestic fight broke out in the next tent I had to figure out how to intervene Asleep late at night in a crowded camp site, Dm-000221 Crash woke me up, then a scream and a curse Dm7-Dm6 Outside my tent, couple having […]
Let’s Not Do This Anymore
Asleep late at night in a crowded camp site, Crash woke me up, then a scream and a curse Outside my tent, couple having a fight I went out, but it only got worse She yelled in his face, then he shoved her down Threatened to hit her if she did it again I was […]
Look At The Ceiling
Look at the ceiling The shadows are bears I wonder what’s on the T.V.? And Daddy’s hands rub me all over I wonder, do leaves in the creek find their way to the sea? Mom mashes potatoes and pours in the milk And silently smokes cigarettes I wish she would hug me, or look at […]
My Secret
MY SECRET Cho: I’ve got a secret, how ’bout you? Let’s tell each other what we do! I’ve got a secret, how ’bout you? Friday night I’m feelin’ right, cause I get paid Right back to my little room, and I pull the shade Off with pants and quickly on with that dress I made […]
Man Oh Man I Can
This was written before computers took up all our spare time. Relationships with inanimate objects might not be all that fulfilling, but they are sure less complicated, (ya think?) MAN OH MAN I CAN! Intro: As a window dresser at Macy’s My future held nothing in store Until that day in the warehouse When I […]
Courage!
When the bull fighter faces the bull, he’s so scared Wishing he was somewhere else, and a little bit better prepared! But he knows in his mind, that to face that big cow Somehow he must find Cho: Courage! Courage! Deep down inside of you, courage! (Repeat) Kid: – Well you’re a grown-up, so you […]