Coal Christmas Carols

Full credit to Steve and Siobhan for pulling together this collection of coal Christmas carols. Once you've picked the best ones from here you should check out Friends of the Earth Sydney's carbon trading carols, they're really great! Then it's off to fill your Government halls and shopping centers with the beautiful sounds of social change.

To the tune of Deck The Halls

Deck the State with solar panels
Fa lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah
And energy from wind channels
Fa lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah

Don we now these protest banners
Fa lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah
Stop mining on the land of farmers
Fa lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah

See the blazing coal before us
Fa lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah
It’s no good so join the chorus
Fa lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah

Fast away our time passes
Fa lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah
Before climate change threatens the masses
Fa lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah

Sing we anxious altogether
Fa lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah
Support renewables, be clever
Fa lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lah

To the tune of 12 Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas, my Anna gave to me:
- An increasing coal industry
On the second day of Christmas, my Anna gave to me:
- two power-stations
On the third day of Christmas, my Anna gave to me:
- three coal ships
On the fourth day of Christmas, my Anna gave to me:
- four missing links
On the fifth day of Christmas, my Anna gave to me:
- Cli--iii-mate change
On the sixth day of Christmas, my Anna gave to me:
- Six coal ports
On the seventh day of Christmas, my Anna gave to me:
- Seven carbon lobbies
On the eighth day of Christmas, my Anna gave to me:
- Eight mined farms
On the ninth day of Christmas, my Anna gave to me:
- Nine destroyed reserves
On the tenth day of Christmas, my Anna gave to me:
- Ten half truths
On the eleventh day of Christmas, my Anna gave to me:
- Eleven mine expansions
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my Anna gave to me:
- Twelve EISs

To the Tune of Little Drummer Boy

Come they told me
Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
Leaders meeting seriously
Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
To sign a treaty
Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
At Copenhagen
Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,---
I thought they’d honour it, pa-rum pumm pum pum,----but I was wrong.

They wasted time
Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
Time we don’t have
Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
It was just a photo op
Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,---funded by you

We cannot give up now
Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
There is too much at stake
Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
So make your voices heard
Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
So Anna can hear us,
Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,---'cause this is absurd

To the Tune of Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town

You better watch out, you better not mine, you better not leave on all your lights
Or else: climate change will come to town

CO2 is filling the air, we want to know if Anna cares,
Because climate change is coming to town

We are all effected
By every new coal mine
Our children’s earth’s in danger, so let’s set a dead line.

You better watch out, you better not mine, you better not leave on all your lights
Or else: climate change will come to town

Oh climate change will come to town
climate change will come to town
Let‘s stop climate change from coming to town.

To the tune of We wish you a Merry Xmas

Chorus:
We wish you a coal-less Christmas x 3,
Or another drought next near.
Good tidings we bring with solar and wind,
We wish you a coal-less Christmas or another drought next year.

So we all want some solar panels,
We all want some wind power,
We all want some geothermal,
So bring some right here.

Repeat Chorus

And we won’t go until we get some x 3, so bring some right here!

Repeat Chorus

To the tune of Silent Night

Silent night, smoky night
Coal fired power, coal fired light
Copenhagen has failed us now
Politicians, don’t know how
Still coal exports continue, still coal exports go on

Smoky night, humming night
Farmers quake at the sight
Prime farm land is taken to mine
All to earn those bigwigs a dime
The end of coal is nigh, the end of coal is nigh

Silent night, dusty night
Coal is crap, coal is trite
Black rocks causing climate change,
Seas to rise and storms to rage
Time for us to take action, time for us to act now.

To the tune, O Come, All Ye Faithful

O come, all ye failed, complacent and half-hearted
O come ye, O come ye from Cop-en-hagen
Come and behold it,
The meaningless agreement
O Come, let us warn them
O come, let us inform them
O come, let us warn them
That we’re watching (and we vote) 

To the Tune of Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer

Anna the coal fired Premier
Has made the State some dirty cash
If you were Mother Nature
You would put it in the trash

All of the other Premiere’s
Are playing Anna’s dirty game
And now it’s time for you
To demand no more of the same

Or else one boring Parliament
Anna will say
Queensland with your debt so wide
Let’s burn some more coal tonight

Up go more power stations
But this is what we say
If Anna keeps burning coal
Then all of us will pay. 

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