From the recordings Count. Me. In. and Children at the Blockade
Yes, this is a spoof. But when you think about it, why are adults treated so savagely when they try to stand up for what is right? Blockadia is alive and well all over the world. Buy the song art here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/children-at-the-blockade-signed-david-hakan.html
Lyrics
Children at the Blockade.
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Children at the blockade, Children at the blockade,
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Children at the blockade, Children at the blockade,
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There’s a mess of trouble in the boardroom today, trouble in the boardroom today.
Children at the blockade, they’re gonna chant and sing. (2x)
They won’t be moved. The police can’t do a thing. The police can’t do a thing.
Children at the blockade, they know a thief in the night. (2x)
Burning fossil fuels is stealing their birthright, stealing their birthright.
Children at the blockade, sick and tired of being ignored. (2x)
They protect the Earth from London to Singapore.
Children at the blockade want to vote when they turn nine. (2x)
Every politician’s nightmare coming down the line, coming down the line.
Cameras at the blockade, they see and hear it all. (2x)
Two billion “Likes”, the governor’s in Panama. The governor fled to Panama.
They tried to slip past in the middle of the night. (2x)
A Thousand Candles blazed with righteous light, blazed with righteous light.
Children at the blockade, they came on scooters and bikes. (2x)
Every color on that stage. An orphan at the mic. An orphan at the mic.
Children at the blockade, say take your money away. (2x)
Investors are fleeing like this boat won’t last the day, this boat won’t last the day.
Children at the blockade, they went on the attack. (2x)
It took a week to get that bubblegum off the track, bubblegum off that railroad track.
Children at the blockade, a thousand puppies, too. (2x)
Those poor police dogs just didn’t know what to do. They didn’t know what to do.
Children at the Blockade are in any place where extraction and pollution dare to show their face.
Hanging out in redwoods and the forests deep, a wing of paper airplanes flying on the breeze.
Pipelines, tar sands, coal plants, pit mines, infrared showing leeks in fracking lines.
Cooling down the planet’s gonna take some little bodies on the line.
Those damn walkie talkies are everywhere. They have a mobile transmitter live on the air.
Coordinate with China in the middle of the night. Brainstorm on Zoom how to win this fight.
Kites on the windshields in the parking lot. Police untying 90 feet of knots.
Will the kids get bored and give up? I think not.
Verse one
Words and Music by David B. Hakan.
© 2021 All Rights Reserved 3-29-2021
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