DOO DAH IMMIGRANTS
(Tune: Camptown Races)

We're Raging Grannies singin' our song,
Doo dah, doo dah.
We say prejudice is wrong,
All the doo dah day!

Gonna roar all night
Gonna rage all day
Immigrants deserve their rights
You must have your say!

INS treats people wrong,
They're doo-doo, doo-doo,
We must keep our freedoms strong
For that's the American way.

Immigrants must unite
Make your voices heard
The U.S. promised you your rights
Keep them to their word

Gonna rage and roar,
Gonna find a way
We're Raging Grannies singin' our song:
Si se puede! (See say pu-a-day)
["Yes, we can!"--rallying cry of the immigrant workers]

adapted by Granny Patricia
Raging Grannies Without Borders
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SAINTS/IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
(Tune: When the Saints go Marching In)

When everyone has equal rights
When everyone has equal rights
Oh how I want to be in that number
When everyone has equal rights

Variations:

When immigrants are treated fair
When profiling has been wiped out
When families are unified
When health care is a right for all
When immigrants can unionize
When every child has what they need
When Congress speaks for you and me

[Finish with the first verse]

adapted by Granny Patricia
Raging Grannies Without Borders
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A GAGGLE OF GRANNIES/IMMIGRANTS
(Tune: "Side by Side")

Oh, we're a gaggle of grannies,
Urging you up off your fannies,
We're raising our voice, we want a new choice for,
IMMIGRANTS!

Workers who work for low wages
If you're illegal you're paid less
You send money home, health care's unknown
IMMIGRANTS!

Whether it is farm work
or cleaning you do
You deserve respect and
We are thanking you

Soooo, join this gaggle of grannies
Get up off of your fannies!
We're telling you now, we're with you and how,
IMMIGRANTS!

We really mean it...IMMIGRANTS!
We mean precisely...IMMIGRANTS!
We'll say it nicely...IMMIGRANTS!

adapted by Granny Patricia
Raging Grannies Without Borders
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FOUND MY FREEDOMS
(Tune: Clementine)

Found my freedoms, found my freedoms,
Found the rights that I deserve
On the bus we immigrant workers
Found our pride and found our nerve

It's ironic how it happened
After years of toil and strife
We broke free and claimed our power
To create a brand new life

It's a life we make together
On the job and in our home
When we speak now they will listen
Our concerns will become known

Time to speak out, time to sing out!
Time to march on Washington!
Freedom Riders, we're together
Sisters, brothers, we are one.

As we go across the country
Here's the message that we bring
We will not stay safe and silent,
We shout, "Let our freedoms ring!"

adapted by Granny Patricia
Raging Grannies Without Borders
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GETTING TOGETHER
(Tune: I'm Looking Over A Four-Leaf Clover)

What's been preventing
The world from getting
Together as friend to friend?
Could it be language?
We'll learn to translate.
Might be religion--
No reason to hate..

Couldn't be color
With all the wonderful
Shades of the human skin?
Let's be forgetting
What's been preventing
And invite the whole world in!

Canadian Grannies