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Marriage Equality Carols
Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA)
Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA)
Thank you to Molly McKay from MEUSA for sharing!
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I'm passing along the MEUSA Marriage Equality Carols that folks can sing where ever shoppers gather (maybe even use on the Dec 20th Light the Night event)- it is a low-tech, fun outreach activity that people can do really easily - and our lyricist is amazing - I think you'll get a kick out of the re-worded songs of the season.
Molly McKay
Media Director for Marriage Equality USA
EQUAL RIGHTS!
(Sung to the tune of “Jingle Bells”)
Equal rights, equal rights, equal all the way!
Oh what fun it is to sing for equal rights today!
Equal rights, equal rights, equal all the way!
All we want is equal rights, on our wedding day!
Dashing through the fog, on our wedding day,
Going to City Hall, laughing all the way (ho, ho, ho!)
Wedding bells will ring, making spirits bright.
Oh what fun when everyone has equal marriage rights! Oh..
Equal rights, equal rights, equal all the way!
Oh what fun it is to sing for equal rights today!
Equal rights, equal rights, equal all the way!
All we want is equal rights, on our wedding day!
WE WISH FOR MARRIAGE EQUALITY
(Sung to the tune of ”We Wish You a Merry Christmas”)
We wish for Marriage Equality,
We wish for Marriage Equality,
We wish for Marriage Equality,
And a Happy New Year!
Equality we bring to you and your kin.
Equality for Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
Oh bring us our marriage license!
Oh bring us our marriage license!
Oh bring us our marriage license!
And bring it right here!
We won't go until we get one!
We won't go until we get one!
We won't go until we get one!
So bring it right here!
We wish for Marriage Equality,
We wish for Marriage Equality,
We wish for Marriage Equality,
And a Happy New Year!
DECK THE HALLS
Deck the Halls with marriage equality!
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Tis the season for equality!
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Don we now our gay apparel,
Fa la la, la la la, la la la.
As we sing equality carols,
Fa la la la la, la la la la!
EQUAL JUSTICE
(Sung to the tune of "White Christmas")
I'm dreaming of equal justice,
just like the Constitution says.
Where we all pay taxes, and all have access,
To civil marriage licenses.
I'm dreaming of equal justice, when true equality's in sight.
May your days be merry and bright,
And may all have equal marriage rights.
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY EQUAL RIGHTS!
All I want for Christmas is my equal rights,
My equal rights, my equal rights!
All I want for Christmas is my equal rights,
So I can wish you a Merry Christmas!
WEDDING BELLS!
(Sung to the tune of "Silver Bells")
Wedding Bells, Wedding Bells
It’s Marriage Time in the City
Ring-a-ling, here them ring
Soon it will be our Wedding Day
City Sidewalks, Pretty Sidewalks
Dressed in bright rainbow style
In the air there’s a feeling of justice
People passing, children laughing
Meeting smile after smile
and above all the bustle you hear
Wedding Bells, Wedding Bells
It’s Marriage Time in the City
Ring-a-ling, here them ring
Soon it will be our Wedding Day.
Prop 8, the Hate amendment (to the tune of “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer”)
Well, there’s DOMA and Prop Twenty-two and Sant-or-um,
Briggs, Jerry Falwell and Bryant and Dob-son;
But do you recall
the most bla-tant ha-tred of all?...
Prop 8, the Hate amendment
used its lies and big-o-try
to change the Consti-tu-tion,
stealing rights from you and me:
All other Cali-for-n’ans
would be treated e-qual-ly;
ex-cept for gays and lesb’ans,
who no longer could mar-ry!
But this co-ming Spring we’ll hear
Our Su-preme Court say:
“Laws must not dis-crim-in-ate,
So we’ll overturn Prop 8!”
Then there’ll be joy and laughter,
as we’ll shout it out with glee—
Prop 8, the Hate amendment,
you’re just ancient his-to-ry! [twice, second time slower]
Proposition 8’s going down (to the tune of “Santa Claus is coming to town”)
You’d better come out, get ready to cheer, get ready to shout,
E-quality’s near:
Prop-o-sition 8’s go-ing down.
The state Supreme Court
is checking it twice;
they’re gonna de-cide e-quality’s right—
Prop-o-sition 8’s go-ing down.
The haters say “just lis-ten
to what the vo-ters say,”
but no-one’s vote should get to take my ci-vil rights away!
So, you’d better come out,
get ready to cheer, get ready to shout,
E-quality’s HERE!
Prop-o-sition 8’s go-ing down! [three times, last time ends on high note]
Prop 8 Supporters (to the tune of “Frosty the Snowman”)
Prop 8 supporters
were afraid your kids might see
happy married gays, so to stop that fate,
you instead taught big-o-try.
Prop 8 supporters,
what your chil-dren learned that day
was that it’s just great to discriminate
and that hatred is okay.
[bridge:]
We wish instead you’d taught them
to de-fend e-qua-li-ty,
and all true fam’ly values
va-lue ev’ry fam-i-ly!
But…
Prop 8 supporters,
there’s still time to change your minds:
when it’s overturned, tell your kids you’ve learned
we should all have equal rights!
Prop 8 supporters,
we’re your neighbors, we’re your friends;
and you ought to know, as statistics go,
of your kids we’re one in ten.
Of your kids… we’re… one… in… ten!
Eleven Hundred Fed’ral Marriage Rights
(to the tune of "Winter Wonderland")
Wedding bells ring, are you listenin'?
No more se-cond class citizens!
We're happy tonight, our goal is in sight:
Eleven hundred fed'ral marriage rights!
Gone away, discrimination,
Here to stay, celebration!
We're happy tonight, our goal is in sight:
Eleven hundred fed'ral marriage rights!
In the courthouse they will hear our lawsuits
All opposing Proposition 8
We’re so glad the Court will hear our lawsuits
‘Cause they know laws should not discriminate!
Later on, when it's legal,
when we're all treated equal …(-ly)
We're happy tonight, our goal is in sight:
Eleven hundred fed'ral marriage rights!
In the meadow, we can build a snowman,
and pretend that he’s Barack Obama.
He'll say "are you married?"
We'll say, "No, man,
but we should have the right to, if we wanna!"
Later on, when it's legal,
when we're all treated equal …(-ly)
We're happy tonight, our goal is in sight:
Eleven hundred fed'ral marriage rights! [twice, second time end on high note]
Equality (to the tune of “Ô Christmas Tree”)
E-quality, e-quality, we wish you weren’t denied us.
E-quality, e-quality, we wish you weren’t denied us.
We’d like to serve our country well,
If they’d repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell”…
E-quality, e-quality, we wish you weren’t denied us.
We lose our jobs—in many states—
Our kids, our homes, because we’re gay…
E-quality, e-quality, we wish you weren’t denied us.
Domestic part-nerships sound great,
But they don’t move from state to state…
E-quality, e-quality, we wish you weren’t denied us.
Those civil u-nions sure seem nice,
But they don’t come with fed’ral rights…
E-quality, e-quality, we wish you weren’t denied us.
For four short months, we got a taste,
Till Prop 8 laid our rights to waste…
E-quality, e-quality, we wish you weren’t denied us.
Next Spring, at last, the Court will say
No vote can take our rights away…
E-quality, e-quality, we wish you weren’t denied us.
We still won’t have full freedom then,
But marriage is a major step…
E-quality, e-quality, we wish you weren’t denied us. [twice, second time slower]
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