Tune: This land is your land
Evelyn Janke, April, 2025)
Tune of Coming Around the Mountain

Oh, Environment’s our concern & so we’re here
Oh, Environment’s our concern & so we’re here
‘Twas a lovely invitation – asking our participation
Cause we think our air and water should be clear.

Oh, the earth is getting sicker every day,
Oh, the earth is getting hotter by the way,
We’re polluting all our water,
And we know we hadn’t oughter…
Oh, the earth is getting sicker every day.

Oh, the earth is getting drier every day
Oh, the earth is getting drier every day
Oh, we’re selling all our water
And we know we hadn’t oughter…
Oh, the earth is getting drier every day.

So IF we get together all of us,
And find a plan that deals with all this stuff,
We will fight for conservation
For all future generations…
That’s the one and only plan we will discuss!

Oh, Environment’s our concern & so we’re here
Oh, Environment’s our concern & so we’re here
‘Twas a lovely invitation – asking our participation
Cause we think our air and water should be clear.

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Tune: This land is your land
Evelyn Janke, April, 2025)

This land is your land, this land is our land,
From Cat a ract Road, right through to Rice Road,
With its natural Wetlands, and endangered species
This land was made for you and me…

This land is your land, this land is our land,
From Cat a ract Road, right through to Rice Road,
With its natural Wetlands, and endangered species
This land was made for you and me…
This land was made for you and me… [SLOW FINALE]]

Protect Wetlands
Tune of What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailer? (Rose Marie Cipryk, Betsy Tauro, Evelyn Janke, April, 2025)

CHORUS: What does it mean to protect the wetlands?
What does it mean to protect the wetlands?
What does it mean to protect the wetlands?
Well, we’re here to tell you!

Don’t destroy our Ecosystems,
Create instead some tra ils through them,
Covered by leafy can o pies…
Pur i fying our air.

What shall we do with Singer’s Drain?
We must KEEP that vital drain…!
It mitigates torrential rains
Preventing excess flooding.
CHORUS

Wetlands have our designation
Let’s honour treaties with Six Nations,
Save the flora and fauna for…
Future generations.

We’re so glad we all can rally,
Behind a PATH that helps us tally
Endangered species well worth saving
From the threat of paving.

CHORUS

Find a route in different directions,
It might even be infectious,
Helping others find what’s precious
Foll ow ing their own PATH.

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TURTLES
Lyrics by Evelyn Janke, Raging Grannies Niagara
To the tune of Waltzing Matilda
Once a Mama Turtle, headed for a ro…ad…side,
In the warm…ing months of spring.
She dodged the cars as she crawled across the busy road,
To find the right spot on the other side!

Chorus tune:
Don’t change her direction, she knows where she’s going –
Point her in the same way, until she reaches sand.
And there she’ll dig a nest and de… pos… it eggs,
And cov er them gent ly with her hind legs.

Chorus tune:
Call the Green Herons, call the Green Herons,
They’ll find a way to protect those precious eggs,
To..ge..ther they will, to… ge… ther th…ey can
To geth er they must, th…ey must find a way.
Today the Green Herons are on their ann…u…a…l march,
And working to bring a ware ness to –
The plight of all wild life, and their natural habitat,
Working to save these as we all must do!

Chorus tune:
Call the Green Herons, call the Green Herons,
With our help, together we’ll keep them alive.
To…geth…er we will, to…ge… ther we can,
Together we must find a way to survive!