To the tune of A Sailor’s Hornpipe

An Ecology Song

Are the seas where you live? Is the deep a place to rest?
Do you frolic in the waves? Is underwater just the best?
When you feel the gentle waters or just playing with the otters
Do you understand the need for now to do just what we ought’a?
Do you understand the need for now to do just what we ought’a?

CHORUS

When the climate is a stake, and there’s a need to just replace
How we generate our power,  and reverse human mistakes
Do you get the needing feeling when your rubbish hits the ceiling?
That the world is turning toxic, and the planet needs a break
That the world is turning toxic, and the planet needs a break

Did you hear the axe swing was there any hesitation?
As the canopy drops through the verdant vegetation
Do you understand the need for trees for respiration?
So, let’s bring an end to policies of Amazonian deforestation
So, let’s bring an end to policies of Amazonian deforestation.

CHORUS

When there’s bottes in our rivers and micro-beads in our foods
When the fossils from the past have been exhausted as our fuels
Will we find a way a better future where we value life and nature?
Where extinction is extinct, and we all do what we should
Where extinction is extinct, and we all do what we should.

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If the ice cap becomes fluid and the water levels rise
And our houses are on stilts and we’re reaching for the sky
Will we get ourselves new wheelchairs with floats and sails and oars?
We have got to change the way we live before the planet dies
We have got to change the way we live before the planet dies

CHORUS repeat repeat repeat