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St.ives G7 shanty

 Welcome! We're creating a shanty to reach out from our St.Ives community to the G7 leaders when  they land here in June.  We need your help!


We'll be singing and drumming the shanty at various events between now and the end of the summit. The idea is to get fired up, get heard and get doing something about the issues we think are important - from the local to the global.  


We'd love members of the St.Ives community to contribute and become part of the shanty's message to the world leaders.  


Please check out our demo video for a taster of the shanty so far.  


If you want to get involved...  

Listen to the female vocal on the video and, copying the rhythm of any two of her rhyming lines, change the words to ones of your own - putting across something you think G7 really needs to hear.  


Eg - replace:  

"In St.Ives here's your mission, To change your tune and listen!"  


Or, in the second section:  

"This world is everyone's concern, So take the lead or feel the burn!"  


Sing your lines along with the recording to check that they fit and rhyme well. When you're happy with them, please send your lines to us at globaljamming@gmail.com

Keep an eye on this page as we update it with the contributions we receive.


If writing G7 shanty lines isn't your thing - please come and add your voices - we'll be giving details on upcoming G7 Shanty sessions here and on our @GlobalJamming facebook page


Here's the community G7 shanty so far - many thanks for all your contributions!

  

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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