This climate change song has a singable chorus that people pick up quickly.
Leave It in the Ground
Copyright Peter Bergel 2015
From the album “Peace Is Where You Make It“
Em D Em
Tearing off your mountain tops delights Peabody Coal
D Em
They don’t care about the mess that’s building their bankroll
G D C B7
But if a global meltdown only makes you frown,
Em D Em
Maybe you should tell ‘em just to leave it in the ground.
Chorus
G C
Leave it in the ground, leave it in the ground
D
It really doesn’t matter how much coal (2-gas, 3-fuel, 4-fuel) you’ve found
G C G
Financial domination will do in all creation
D G
So change your frackin’ ways and leave it in the ground.
People ‘round the country can light water from their taps
Fracking natch’ral gas makes their environment collapse
Perhaps it’s not so natch’ral if it makes nature come unwound
We’d all be better off just to leave it in the ground.
Chorus (gas)
If we burn the fossil fuels that they’ve already found
Our planet will heat up so much that we won’t be around
This message from the dinosaurs I will now expound:
You really better tell them to leave it in the ground.
Chorus (fuel)
We’ve all seen the fires, floods, the droughts and super storms, Even
Dittohead deniers know that this is not the norm
Unless we take some action and help nature to rebound
She’ll retaliate and she’ll leave us in the ground.
Chorus (fuel)
The Carbon Blues