Memorial Day weekend- Songbook

Where Have All the Flowers Gone – 
Song by Pete Seeger

Where have all the flowers gone
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone
The girls have picked them every one
Oh when will you ever learn
Oh when will you ever learn
Where have all the young girls gone
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone
They've taken husbands every one
Oh when will you ever learn
Oh when will you ever learn
Where have all the young men gone
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone
Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone
They're all in uniform
Oh when will we ever learn
Oh when will we ever learn
 
If I Had a Hammer-

Song by Pete Seeger

If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening, all over this land
I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out a warning
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land
If I had a bell, I'd ring it in the morning
I'd ring it in the evening, all over this land
I'd ring it in danger, I'd ring out a warning
I'd ring in love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land
If I had a song, I'd sing it in the morning
I'd sing it in the evening, all over this land
I'd sing it in danger, I'd sing out a warning
I'd sing in love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land
Well I got a hammer and I got a bell
And I got a song to sing all over this land
It's the hammer of justice, it's the bell of freedom
It's the song about love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land
 
 Blowing in the Wind – 
Song by Bob Dylan 

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yes, and how many years must a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea?
Yes, and how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, and how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
 
This Land Is Your Land –

Song by Woody Guthrie 
 
This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.
As I was walking that ribbon of highway,
I saw above me that endless skyway:
I saw below me that golden valley:
This land was made for you and me.
This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.
I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts;
And all around me a voice was sounding:
This land was made for you and me.
This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.
When the sun came shining, and I was strolling,
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling,
As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting:
This land was made for you and me.
This land is your land This land is my land
From California to the New York island;
From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and Me.
 
 America the Beautiful
by Katharine Lee Bates, Samuel A. Ward.

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!

America! America!
Heaven shed it’s grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.

America! America!
Heaven mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.

America! America!
May Heaven thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.

America! America!
Heaven shed it’s grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

This is for our neighbors -

Lu Aya; Peace Poets

This is for our NEIGHBORS who are locked inside, together, we will, Abolish ICE

This is for the MOTHERS who are locked inside, together, we will, Abolish ICE

This is for the FATHERS who are locked inside, together, we will, Abolish ICE

This is for the CHILDREN who are locked inside, together, we will, Abolish ICE

This is for the FAMILIES who are locked inside, together, we will, Abolish ICE

This is for our NEIGHBORS who are locked inside, together, we will, Abolish ICE

We are the Movement -

Lu Aya; Peace Poets

We are the movement

Liberation movement

For every single human

We have come to win

Gather Your Courage-

Coco Love Alcorn

Gather your COURAGE into your heart, When we're together we can start

Gather your COURAGE into your heart, When we're together we can start

Everybody show up (echo) Everybody show up

Everybody rise up (echo) Everybody rise up

Everybody shake it up (echo) Everybody shake it up

Everybody here (echo) Everybody here

Gather your COURAGE into your heart, When we're together we can start

Gather your COURAGE into your heart, When we're together we can start

Everybody speak out (echo) Everybody speak out.

Everybody reach out (echo) Everybody reach out

Everybody shake it out (echo)

Everybody shake it out

Everybody here (echo) Everybody here

Gather your COURAGE into your heart, When we're together we can start

Gather your COURAGE into your heart, When we're together we can start

Gather this power (echo) Gather this power

Into our hands (echo) Into our hands

Care for each other (echo) care for each other

On these lands (echo) on these lands

Gather your COURAGE into your heart, When we're together we can start

Gather your COURAGE into your heart, When we're together we can start

Knock On The Door

Phil Ochs; sung and Updated

by Ben Grosscup (~1 min in)

In many a time, in many a land

With many a gun in many a hand

They came by the night,

they came by the day

Came with their guns to take us away

With a knock on the door,

knock on the door

Here they come to take one more,

one more

Back in the days of the Roman Empire

They died by the cross

and they died by the fire

In the stone coliseum,

the crowd gave a roar

And it all began with that

knock on the door

Just a knock on the door,

knock on the door.

Here they come to take one more,

one more

The years went by and we reached modern times

The Nazis came with their

Nazi war crimes

In the din of silence

where freedom had drowned

Eleven million people

heard the same sound

Of a knock on the door,

knock on the door

Here they come to take one more,

one more

2026 New lyrics…

Now there's many new words and many new names

Uniforms have changed but the knock is the same

The agents of ICE broadcast their raids

They’re trying to make the people afraid

Of a knock on the door,

knock on the door

Here they come to take one more,

one more

Resist the goons

of the strange orange clown

From South Minneapolis

to here in our town

Open your eyes. See what they do

WHEN THEY KNOCK FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR, THEY’RE KNOCKING FOR YOU!

With their knock on the door,

knock on the door

Here they come to take one more,

one more