[Sung to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas. As much as I don’t like to associate a lovely song with the ugly realities of our day… well… I had to.]
On the first day of fracking
The scientists said to us,
“We’re trashing our precious Earth.”
On the second day of fracking
‘Ol Cheney gave to Bush
A gutted EPA
And we’re trashing our precious Earth.
On the third day of fracking
The Supreme Court banged their gavel:
Corporations rule!
A gutted EPA
And we’re trashing our precious Earth.
On the fourth day of fracking
Congress laughed and said
We’ll look the other way,
Corporations rule!
A gutted EPA,
And we’re trashing our precious Earth.
On the fifth day of fracking
The fossil fuel giants counted:
**All their golden billions**
Look the other way,
Corporations rule!
A gutted EPA,
And we’re trashing our precious Earth.
On the sixth day of fracking
The shale rigs gave to us:
Contaminated groundwater
**All those golden billions**
Look the other way,
Corporations rule!
A gutted EPA,
And we’re trashing our precious Earth.
On the seventh day of fracking
The oil spills gave to us:
Dead birds a-floating
Contaminated groundwater
**All those golden billions**
Look the other way,
Corporations rule!
A gutted EPA,
And we’re trashing our precious Earth.
On the eighth day of fracking
The Koch Empire banked on
Climate change deniers
Dead birds a-floating
Contaminated groundwater
**All those golden billions**
Look the other way,
Corporations rule!
A gutted EPA,
And we’re trashing our precious Earth.
On the ninth day of fracking
Everywhere we saw
Filthy, polluting liars
Climate change deniers
Dead birds a-floating
Contaminated groundwater
**All those golden billions**
Look the other way,
Corporations rule!
A gutted EPA,
And we’re trashing our precious Earth.
On the tenth day of fracking
We cried and wrung our hands… because
Greedy lords a-pillaging
Filthy, polluting liars
Climate change deniers
Dead birds a-floating
Contaminated groundwater
**All those golden billions**
Look the other way,
Corporations rule!
A gutted EPA,
And we’re trashing our precious Earth.
On the eleventh day of fracking
First Nations pointed out:
Global injustice
Greedy lords a-pillaging
Filthy, polluting liars
Climate change deniers
Dead birds a-floating
Contaminated groundwater
**All those golden billions**
Look the other way,
Corporations rule!
A gutted EPA,
And we’re trashing our precious Earth.
On the twelfth day of fracking
The people woke and said,
STOP THE FRACKING MADNESS!
Global injustice
Greedy lords a-pillaging
Filthy, polluting liars
Climate change deniers
Dead birds a-floating
Contaminated groundwater
**All those golden billions**
Look the other way,
Corporations rule!
A gutted EPA,
And we’re trashing our precious Earth!
Personally, I prefer calling birds, turtle doves, geese, swans, and drummers drumming.
LET’S MAKE 2015 THE YEAR WE CHANGE IT ALL.
Photo credit: Jose B. Ruiz
Running with Pencils 
May the new year be New! Love Joe
OK, then. Now I am sufficiently depressed. But heartened, too. Yeah, that’s it!
Be heartened! Rebuild the world anew! 2015 here we come…..
Very catchy! 😉
I admire the work you are doing, blaze away and many thanks!