FREE MARIJUANA
Sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda.
Once a Ganja smoker
forgot to bring his bong along,
"It don’t really matter, I can build one" said he,
and he sang, as he mulled, and then he rolled a giant joint,
Who’ll come and share in a session with me?
Free Marijuana!! Free Marijuana!!
Who’ll come and join in this protest with me?
We’ll sing till we bring, freedom to the growth of Green,
Who’ll come and join in this protest with me?
Down near a water hole grew a wild Sativa tree.
Up jumped the smoker and picked buds with glee.
and he sang, as he mulled up all that wicked wild weed.
Who’ll come and join in a session with me?
Free Marijuana. We’ll smoke lots of Ganja,
Smoking Marijuana sets your mind free.
We’ll sing till we bring, freedom to the growth of Green,
Who’ll come and join in this protest with me?
Down came a squatter, a Rasta with a real cool dread.
Down came Police men, now happy, hip and free.
Check out all the wicked weed you got in that bowl of yours,
let’s all get rolling and skin some spliffs, Yipee!!
Free Marijuana. Set loose the Ganja,
Who’s feeling happy? and who wants green peace?
And we’ll sing till we bring, freedom to the growth of Green
Who’ll come and join in this protest with me?
REPEAT UNTIL RELEGALIZED REPEAT UNTIL
RELEGALIZED
Words re-assembled by Gary John Ford
1996 ;O)-~
Šopyright? Right. Print-Photocopy then distribute.
About the Alternative Version The purpose of these words is to assure you that I didn’t pick on the banjo without good reason, in fact, I have a sneaking suspicion that Banjo Patterson would have agreed with this 1990’s version, nah, more than a sneaking suspicion, I reckon the dude would have loved it, and here’s some of why, mostly he would have loved it because Waltzing Mathilda was a protest song, it was one of the ‘turn of the century’ rallying cries of the push for Federation, a song that was sung in defiance of the ‘ruling class’ of Australia in the 1890’s, a song that can be as powerful today as it was a 100 years ago. When you sing the chorus out loud, people smile, it is a happy tune that carries a subliminal message, you can sing the chorus every where you go, sing it in pubs as the bar is closing, start up a chant of "Free Marijuana, FREE Marijuana" at concerts and sporting events, people will join in, just sing it out loud and see, sing it in lifts with suits or when standing in line, sing it on buses and trains, at parties and on the streets, if you can’t sing, whistle, if you can’t whistle, hum, If you do it often enough, loud enough and proud enough, it won’t be long till the whole country is grooving along to this protest song. |