Wanstead Climate Action, a group of residents who are warning about what needs to change to limit global warming, offered these re-written carols, written by @BinstedVillage, to make their case.
Jingle Bells / No More Flights
No more flights no more flights absolutely none
If you want to save the planet listen to our song oh!
No more flights no more flights absolutely none
If you want to save the planet listen to our song.
Every time you fly/To the Med from London town
It melts a chunk of Arctic Ice/As big as a house (per person!) *
If you have to go/Take the train instead
Or you could use Skype, attend/That meeting from your bed – hey!
No more flights no more flights absolutely none
If you want to save the planet listen to our song oh!
No more flights no more flights absolutely none
If you want to save the planet listen to our song.
*’Per person’ in the style of ‘ho ho ho’
Deck the Halls / Public Transport
Deck the roads with bikes and buses
Fa la la la laaa, la la, la la.
Public transport for the masses,
Fa la la la laaa, la la, la la.
And about those tens of billions
For new roads – it just won’t work!
Traffic jams return in millions
And the angry drivers go berserk.
See the blazing fires before us
Fa la la la laaa, la la, la la.
Worse each year, so join the chorus
Fa la la la laaa, la la, la la.
Time for Highways England’s sacking,
Fa la la la laaa, la la, la la.
Green New Deal is what we’re backing,
Fa la la la laaa, la la, la la.
Good King Wenceslas / Sea of Plastic
Good King Wenceslas looked out,
On a sea of plastic
Ban that single use right now
That would be fantastic
In our rivers in the sea
In our drinking water
Poisoning the food we eat
And our sons and daughters
Hither page and stand by me,
If thou knowst it telling,
Who’s that sleeping in the street,
Where and what his dwelling?
Sire, he sleeps on plastic bags
By a rubbish mountain
Archways, doorways, are his home
Rain his drinking fountain.
Bring me food and bring me drink
Bring me warmth and shelter
Bring me politicians here
Tell them to do better
Finding him a place to stay
Must be our endeavour
Through the rude wind’s wild lament
And the bitter weather.
Sire the night is darker now
And the wind blows stronger
Fails my boat and it might sink
I can go no longer.
Rising oceans, war and drought
Bring us more and faster
Climate justice round the world
That must be the answer.
We Wish you a Merry Christmas
We wish for a healthy planet
We wish for a healthy planet
We wish for a healthy planet
And a Green Deal New Year
Glad tidings we bring to you and your kin
We wish for a healthy planet
And a Green Deal New Year
Now bring us a vegan pudding
Now bring us a vegan pudding
Now bring us a vegan pudding
And jugs of good beer
12 days of Christmas (Crisis)
On the Twelfth Day of Crisis the People want to see
Governments all Actin’
Net Zero Carbon
No Ice Caps meltin’
All Voices Singin’
Alarm Bells a Ringin’
No Sixth Extinction
No More Floods
Climate Justice
Three Core Demands
More Turtle Doves and
A future that’s good for you and me
