THE CLIMATE IS A-CHANGIN’      

Come gather round people wherever you roam
Cos slowly, but surely we’re killing our home
As Ice sheets and glaciers roll into the sea
Coastlines will be re-arrangin’
So many big cities submergin’ will be
For the climate is a changin’

Come politicians and lend me your ears
Put the planet ahead of seductive careers
Pick up your pens, catastrophe nears,
For this world that we love is worth savin’
And God’s looking down with his eyes full of tears
For the climate is a changin’

Come all men and women from every land
Black white or yellow, together we must stand
Coal fired stations should surely be banned
Abandon the new ones we’re building or planned
Alternative power’s already been found
And the war against carbon’s a-ragin’
Stop diggin’ up coal, leave it all in the ground
For the climate is a changin’

Come all men of science, raise up your voice
Explain to the world whilst we still have a choice
Let’s listen to Hansen and heed what he says
The predictions he makes, if we don’t mend our ways
The burning of Carbon, the part that it plays
Cos the window for action’s a-fadin’
And we will regret to the end of our days
For the climate is a changin’

Come all ye children who’ve yet to be born
And sadly awake to a different dawn
For it’s you who will suffer, it’s you who will cry
As our creatures, our forests and oceans all die
And you’ll be the ones who’ll be asking us ‘WHY’
Was everyone procrastinating?
You knew it was coming, but you stood idly by
When the climate was a changin’