Welcome! In 2020 we created a shanty to reach out from our St.Ives community to the G7 leaders when they landed here in June.
We received a massive response and performed the shanty on several occasions during the summit
Here are some of the contributions we received from all over Cornwall, indicating a wealth of strong feelings, poetic talent and Cornish language skills!
PART A
No going back!
The trees continue falling
No going back!
It’s time to quit your stalling!
No going back!
The time is growing nearer
No going back!
The message getting clearer
No going back!
You have it in your power
No going back!
At this eleventh hour
No going back!
You know that time is tight
No going back!
Here’s your chance to get it right!
No going back!
Action is essential
No going back!
To achieve the Earth’s potential
No going back!
Hear your people crying
No going back!
To see our planet dying
No going back!
Our house is still on fire
No going back!
The flames are getting higher!
No going back!
No need to seek permission
No going back!
To end this Earth’s attrition
No going back!
No more exploitation
No going back!
Let’s free this generation!
No going back!
The Earth needs our protection
No going back!
She’s had enough rejection
No going back!
In St Ives here’s your mission
No going back!
To change your tune and listen
No going back!
You plan to save our climate?
No going back!
WELL NOW’S THE TIME TO PRIME IT!
No going back!
Now the seas are rising
No going back!
Keep your eyes on the horizon
No going back!
Accept our planet’s dying
No going back!
All these things need rectifying!
No going back!
Your hands are on the rudder
No going back!
Let’s save the Earth, our Mother
No going back!
Let’s shout it from the Steeple
No going back!
Power to the people!!
PART B
Global messages
Don’t cut the trees they cool the air
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
A million species shelter there
We will not follow where you lead
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
When motivation’s selfish greed
You know there is no Planet B
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
The seas are rising and so are we!
Greta’s told us many times
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Now you can’t ignore the signs
Share and share and share alike
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Forget your car, get on your bike!
Corruption, hate and greed and strife
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Will strip our planet of all life
You can’t eat money can you see
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Grow the Earth protect the bee!
No bees, no fish, our planet’s dying
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
All these things need rectifying
You know that the time is tight
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Here’s your chance to get it right
Talk is easy NO MORE WORDS
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Action NOW can save our world!
Fossil fuels like gas and coal
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Take us further from our goal
Mad leaders play at being God
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Man-made fires, rain and fog
The time has come for you to say
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
We’re going to make polluters pay
We must stop focusing on wealth
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
The world needs nursing back to health!
This world is everyone’s concern
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
So take the lead or feel the burn!
Or……. So take the lead or see it burn!
And did you have to come by plane
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
When you can go and catch the train?
Local messages
Hedhewgh Stat Porthreptor. (Stress on hedh, stat and rep)
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Rag sawya gwydh ha ythyn (Stress on saw, gwydh and yth)
(Meaning: Stop the Carbis Bay Estate
To save the trees and birds.)
Don’t take our woods down by the train
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
To build and build for profit’s gain
Please keep our beaches neat and clean
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
And leave no trace at all that you have been
Just take a bag and tidy up
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Especially if you take your pup!
Let children play in pristine sands
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
No broken glass or messy hands!
Hayle Quayside development
Starting work , nesting season
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
moving sand dunes for no reason
Making money at all cost
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
local landscape raped n lost
Luxury flats, Penthouse buildings
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Going now up , making millions
Minimum wages , seasonal labour
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Hurting your ' poor working ' neighbour
Tax avoidance , Offshore havens
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Ripping off , our Cornish Nation
Panama papers, jailed accountants
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Selling land to matey mates
Public workers lost at sea
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Drowning in developers' glee
Building high 'n' getting away
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Leave the poor 'n' meek to pay
I 'm an ant 'n' you 're the boot
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
You stamp on me and think it’s cute
(from the Hayle Climate Action Group)
St.Ives Foodshare Project
Those Orchard Ladies in St Ives
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
The Foodshare project they devised
Saving stuff destined for bins
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
And distributing surplus tins!
Working from the rugby club
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
We cook up some lovely grub
Food that would be thrown away,
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
We cook to feed you every day
The stuff that would be thrown away
Won’t go back G7 - won’t go!
Can now be cooked to make your day
No going back
We'll put food in your belly
No going back
Before it gets too smelly!
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