Song: If We Had Billions
This should be sung to the tune of
If I Had a Hammer. Thanks to Pete Seeger and Lee Hayes for the songwriting. Thanks to Peter, Paul and Mary for making the tune famous.
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Here’s the song.
If We Had a Billion
If only we were big and tall
We’d rise up in the mor — or — nin’
We’d rise up in the ee — eev — nin’
All over this land
We’d lead out of danger
And people would follow
We’d bring up the love between
Our brothers and our sisters, ah-ah
All over this land
If we had bill — illi — ions
Buy justice in the morning
Buy freedom in the evening
All over this land
We’d buy out Twitter
We’d buy out Newwwwwwwwwwwww York Times
We’d pay to spread the love between
Our brothers and our sisters, ah-all
All over this land
If we had a song to sing
We’d sing it in the morning
We’d sing it in the evening
All over this land
We’d sing out justice
We’d sing out freedom
We’d sing out the love between
Our brothers and our sisters ah-all
All over this land
We’re gonna raise billions
And we’ll stand up tall — all — all
And we’ve got a song to sing
All over this land
We raise money for justice
We stand tall for freedom
We sing about the love between
Our brothers and our sisters
All over this land
All over this land
All over this land
All over this land
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I updated this old protest song, because now it’s become clear that — in the present age — if you have a hammer or a bell, you still can’t be heard — unless you can afford to buy an expensive platform like New York Times or Twitter.
There was recently a letter sent to New York Times signed by many of their contributors, about their irresponsible coverage of trans issues. What did NYT do? They just blew it off. They didn’t consider these criticisms seriously at all. People who own the big communication platforms have the power to influence millions and to gnore everyone who disagrees. Here is the latest update of the letter.
If progressives can raise a billion, here’s what we could do with it.
And here are some individuals who could contribute and organizations that could fundraise.
