BOB DYLAN THEY AIN’T! XR’S BIZARRE PROTEST SONGS

Extinction Rebellion aren’t just glueing themselves to buildings and stopping Tube travellers getting to work. They also fancy themselves as songwriters, as these excruciating versions of some much-loved tunes reveal…

Now Is The Time (to the tune of Auld Lang Syne)

While airports baulk at climate change, and call our trespass crime, We’ll act lest justice be forgot, for now is the time. For now is the time, my dear, for now is the time. We’ll act for climate justice yet, for now is the time. (Repeat three times)

Hey You (to the tune of Hey Jude)

Hey you, don’t make it bad, take a sad state and make it better. Together, we’ll take the runway apart, then we can start, to make it better. Hey you, don’t be afraid, you do more than just write a letter. Stay strong and, know that we’ll never give in, and we’ll begin, to make it better. And anytime you feel the pain, hey you refrain. Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders. For fossil giants they will fall and hard they’ll fall. You’ve made us all a little bolder. Nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah…

Shut Down, Shut Down (to the tune of New York, New York)

Start spreading the news, we’re closing today. We’ve got to be a part of it, shut down, shut down! These millions of shoes, are walking today, right through the very heart of it, shut down shut down! I... want to walk through, in a city, that constantly eats. And find the roads are all closed... un-der-ground too.

Go Green (to the tune of Joleen)

(Chorus) Go green (x4) We’re asking you to leave don’t take our land. Go green (x4) Don’t think that we can’t stop you cause we can. Now I could easily understand how you could want to mine our land but you don’t know what it means to us go green. It’s beauty is beyond compare a common land for all to share and you don’t know what it means to us go green.

What Shall We Do On A Digital Blockade? (to the tune of What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor?)

What shall we do on a digital blockade, what shall we do on a digital blockade, what shall we do on a digital blockade, early in the morning? Call up the phones till the lines are blocked, call up the phones till the lines are blocked, call up the phones till the lines are blocked, early in the morning.

Jingle Bells

Dashing through the snow, to block Heathrow today, Over roads we go, laughing all the way Bells and sirens ring, making spirits light, What fun it is to laugh and sing a climate song tonight. Oh Jingle bells, expansion smells, block it all the way, Oh what fun it is be a climate elf today! (Repeat)

Good King Wenceslas

Good King Wenceslas was distressed Saw the assets stranded Told his councillors thou ‘Divest!’ As the folk demanded There’s no money making here Climate change is cruel Change the pension, bring us cheer, No more fossil fu-els!