Green holiday carols

[Cathy Tuttle]

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I'm dreaming of a green Christmas
I'm dreaming of a green Christmas. We'll learn again to grow our food.
We'll build local turbines and share our grapevines. And find meaning in our jobs.

Oh, I'm dreaming of a green Christmas. When every child gets what she needs.
We’ll have time together, we’ll share our weather. And meet all our village needs.

Oh, I'm dreaming of a green Christmas. With every friend I meet today.
We’ve got time for dinner, and time with inner. Quiet meaning to our days.

Oh, I'm dreaming of a green Christmas. We'll find our paradise on earth.
(Bridge) May your power sources be clean –
And may all your Christmases be green.


350 ppm (Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer)
Three-fifty parts per million, carbon in the atmosphere.
We’re closer to three-ninety, risking all that we hold dear.

Famines and climate chaos, droughts and melting arctic too.
Risking life on our planet/ Oh my dear what shall we do?

(Bridge) Living local lives will help, planting trees and food.
Burning fossil fuels is out, Earth supports our life no doubt.

Earth is a perfect system, if we learn to use it well.
350 parts per million, to keep a world where we can dwell.


Green Jobs (Greensleeves)
Alas, my love I lost my job, no cash, no power, no food to eat.
Our home foreclosed, the malls are dark, what shall we do now for our living?
(chorus) Green Jobs can feed us all, Green jobs give new energy.
Green Jobs transform the world, To one where our lives all have meaning.
Install green power, plant trees, grow crops and grain, heal our schools, insulate old homes.
Restore our streams, revive crafts and trades, building value in our local businesses.
(chorus) Green Jobs can feed us all, Green jobs give new energy.
Green Jobs transform the world, To one where our lives all have meaning.

Oh Composting (Oh Christmas Tree)
(chorus)Oh composting, oh composting, we gather leaves and plant stocks (x2).
We put you in a pile and turn
And keep you warm and moist and firm.
(chorus)Oh composting, oh composting, we gather leaves and plant stocks (x2).
We might add worms or coffee grounds
Eggshells or seaweed to the mound.
(chorus)Oh composting, oh composting, we gather leaves and plant stocks (x2)

(to I’ll be Home for Christmas)
We’ll stay home for Christmas. You can count on me.
We won’t fly, we’ll stay nearby, we’ll build community.
Christmas Eve will find us. Where the love light gleams.
We’ll stay home for Christmas, it’s not just only dreams.

(to Let it Snow!)
Oh the weather outside is frightful, hurricanes predicted by nightfall.
Our climate is starting to go, so keep it slow, keep it slow, keep it slow
It doesn’t show signs of stopping, the ice in the Arctic is popping
The lights are turned way down low, keep it slow, keep it slow, keep it slow
When we finally come to love, the perfect planet for our home
We’ll find ways to get ri-id of, the carbon we use on our own.
The sun is brightly glowing, it’s the power we need to keep going
But for now stop and love one another, keep it slow, keep it slow, keep it slow.

(to Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer)
Eating a local diet, you can eat up all your greens.
Peaches and squash and carrots, apples, salmon and your beans.
(bridge) We have local food galore, raspberries blue and black. Chickens pecking in their coops, Onions and garlic for our soups.
We’re blessed with year round climate, suitable for eating well.
We like what grows near our town, we can have a good noel.

The 12 days of winter
In the dark Seattle winter, my planet said to me:
1. Please take only what you need!
2. Reduce reuse recycle
3. Buy local food
4. Give your time and skills
5. Remember I’m your home.
6. Say no to plastic bottles
7. Get to know your neighbors
8. Wrap your gifts in fabric
9. Plant edible gardens
10. Tell your kids the truth
11. Turn off your lights
12. Bus, bike or carpool

Oh Come All Ye Wasteful (Oh Come All Ye Faithful)
Oh Come All Ye Wasteful. Fossil fuel guzzlers. Let’s give up our single occupancy commutes!
Let’s get on Metro, bike and ride and carpool. Oh come let’s trim our footprint (x3). And use just enough.

Jingle Trains
Dashing down the line, of an automated train, we can play on board, and keep off wasteful planes. If we choose to go, in comfort and in style, we can keep can keep our carbon low, and make the trip worthwhile.
(Chorus) Oh, ride the train, ride the bus, don’t get bumped off flights. We can visit Grandma’s house and without a car in sight. (x2)
We have friends at home. But sometimes we must go. Far away to relatives – so keep your carbon low! (Chorus)

Solar power (to Angels we have heard on high) – this song was written by Seattle Labor Choir
Wind and sun we’ve seen on high, Sweetly singing o’er the plains.
And the windmills in reply, echoing their glad refrain.
(Chorus) Solar power. Inexpensive energy (2x)
We have used up fossil fuels, now our planet needs to cool
There’s a way to honor earth, giving back our planet’s worth (Chorus x2)

I had a little footprint (Dreydl song)
I had a little footprint, I bought another car
I gave it to my children, so they could travel far.
(Chorus) My footprint, footprint, footprint, I want to raise it fast
Cause we all know our planet, is not designed to last.
I had a little footprint, I turned up central heat
So I can sweat in winter, and feel like an athlete (Chorus)
I had a little footprint, I made a shopping trip
To Saks, Dior, and Bloomies, I buy all my friendships (Chorus)
I had a little footprint, I took an airplane flight
To New York and Chicago, for just some fun tonight (Chorus)
I had a little footprint, I watered all my lawn
I wouldn’t want to garden, cause food banks make me yawn (Chorus)
I had a little footprint, I threw away my fridge,
My laptop and my i-pod, so old they are garbage (Chorus)
I had a little footprint, I ate a meal out
Imported fruit and surf and turf, I could not do without (Chorus)
I had a little footprint, I gave myself a raise
I needed a new boat soon, for ostentatious displays (Chorus)

Oh Carbon Neutral (Oh Chanukah, Oh Chanukah come light the menorah)
Oh carbon neutral energy is what we depend on
Wind farms and geothermal and insulation.
Riding bikes and walking and going by train.
Healthy local food and gardening again.
We live on one planet. We’re given a task on this earth.
To love one another and care for our future and steward the land of our birth
To love one another and care for our future and steward the land of our birth.

Up on the Rooftop
Up on the rooftop cluck, cluck, cluck. We’ve got chickens and a duck.
We give them kitchen scraps to eat, and they make fresh eggs a treat.
(Chorus)Cluck, cluck, cluck. Chickens and a duck (x2).
Up on our rooftop, click, click, click. We love our duckies and all our chicks.

and some other popular favorites with Green lyrics
They blew up old Smokey
They blew up my mountain, while taking its coal
They said they would fix it, but there’s still a hole
The hole is all filled with, some poisonous goo
The company promised, it wouldn’t hurt you
Now goo is all flowing, through rivers and trees
We hear no more bird songs, or bumbling bees
Goo flows through our village, it eats up our yards
It comes from our mountains, to power your cars
We’ve heard that the sunshine, makes power for free
So please keep our mountains, for eternity.

Carbon Doodle (to the tune of Yankee Doodle)
Carbon fuels are all washed up, we want solar power
It will never fail us, the sun and wind are ours.
Solar power crank it up. For a new beginning.
It is clean and we can trust a power that keeps giving.

Cradle to Cradle (to Rock a bye baby)
Cradle to cradle, give back to earth.
Nothing is wasted, all has a worth.
We are the stewards, given this trust
We return futures, given to us.
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