In November and December we teamed up with the Climate Justice Coalition and Friends of the Earth Cambridge, who kindly let us take a song to their stalls, and indeed joined in singing it. Thanks to both groups for this.
CJC’s stall was on Burleigh Street on Sunday 20 November, and the stall by Cambridge Friends of the Earth was at the Mill Road Winter Fair on Saturday 3 December.
The song arises from Debt Justice’s petition on the cost-of-living crisis, more or less. The tune is William Croft’s splendid melody ‘St Anne‘, often used for the hymn ‘O God, our help in ages past’.
THE ENERGY DEBT SONG
O government, the cost of gas
and electricity
soars in your power. We pray you slash
the bills for energy.
Your people’s debts for heat and light
grow darker through your reign.
We pray you write them off today
and see us thrive again.
Pray insulate the nation’s homes
and cheapen keeping warm.
Pray own the firms whose profits cast
these shadows to our harm.
