YOU'VE BEEN LOADING UP THE BUSES
(tune: "I've Been Working on the Railroad")

You've been loading up the buses,
Crossing the land.
Immigrants who won't be silenced,
You're here to make a stand.
Traveling all across the country, taking up the fight;
Telling all the folks you meet that
Justice is your right!

CHORUS:
In solidarity,
working to be free;
Human dignity
for you and me.

In solidarity,
working to be free
Human rights and dignity.

You've been working for low wages
for far too long,
So you're riding for your freedom;
Won't you join us in our song?
Human rights and health insurance,
A fair and decent wage.
Immigrants, we stand united;
Join us as we RAGE!

Repeat CHORUS

By Granny Kim Redigan
Raging GranniesWithout Borders

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

End with first verse

Adapted by Granny Patricia Lay-Dorsey
Raging GranniesWithout Borders

A GAGGLE OF GRANNIES
(for 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 Lay-Dorsey
Raging Grannies Without Borders

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 Lay-Dorsey
Raging Grannies Without Borders

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, as adapted)

RAGING GRANNIES WITHOUT BORDERS
OF DETROIT , MI & WINDSOR, ONT
http://www.geocities/raginggranni