RAGING GRANNIES SONGS ABOUT HOMELESSNESS

SAINTS--Homelessness
(Tune: When the Saints go Marching In)

When people's rights receive respect
When people's rights receive respect
Oh how I want to be in that number
When people's rights receive respect

Variations:
When welfare grants meet basic needs
When homelessness does not exist
When poverty has been erased
When health care is a right for all
When every child has what they need

Adapted by Grannies Dolores & Charlotte
Raging Grannies Without Borders

NO HOMELESS NO MORE!
(Tune: Home On the Range)

O give me a home, so I don't need to roam,
Where my children are safe and can play
Where seldom is heard a disparaging word
And there's plenty to eat every day

CHORUS:
No homeless no more!
We call on you, open a door!
Let's get folks off the street
And back up on their feet,
All the lost, hungry, sick and the poor

O give me a home so I don't need to roam
In my feeble helpless old age
Where seldom is heard a disparaging word
Just respect to have come to this stage

CHORUS

O give me a home so I don't need to roam
Challenged physically, mentally too,
Where seldom is heard a disparaging word
Just kindness and love all day through

CHORUS

chorus by Kingston Raging Grannies
verses by GranMotoko of Raging Grannies Without Borders

YOUTH HOMELESSNESS
(tune: All I Want from My Fair Lady)

All I want is a room somewhere
Far away from the cold night air
With maybe a bed and chair--
Oh, wouldn't that be loverly!

Some kids might think it's kinda neat
To be panhandling on the street
--Believe me, it's no treat,
It's anything but loverly!

Oh, for a place where I could shower
And wash my clothes--
Maybe even have a door,
A door that I could close!

No one there to hassle me,
With my own place, I would feel so free;
The future might even be
Not so sca-a-ry.
Loverly? (smiling)
Scary. (frowning)
Loverly? (smiling)
Maybe. (shrug shoulders)

Petersborough Raging Grannies