Songbook

Action AWE songbook - songs sung and performed during Choir Actions at Aldermaston, Burghfield and surrounding towns and villages.

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Lyrics to song sung at a blockade at Büchel in Germany - could be adapted for use at Aldermaston and Burghfield….. (adapted from the Greenham silos song, written by Rebecca January 1983)

WE’LL BLOCKADE AT BÜCHEL

We’ll face them with nonviolence we’ll face them with song

we’ll blockade their bases, link arms and be strong

we don’t want their weapons and we don’t want their wars

so we’ll blockade at Büchel

we’ll blockade at Faslane,

we’ll blockade at Burghfield

till peace is ours.

They say they need Trident, tacnukes and the rest

they say for deterrence these bombs are the best

Flatten Moscow like Hiroshima…. or maybe Tehran?

Come stop them at Büchel

we’ll stop them at Burghfield

we’ll make them see sense,

All these bombs should be banned

Imagine them used with a great searing flash

Death, dust and radiation – our environment would crash

We don’t want to die and we don’t want to kill

So get the bombs out of Büchel,

Get the nukes out of NATO

Get a nuclear ban treaty

We can and we will!

We’ll sit in the road and we’ll block all the gates

we’ll stop this Cold War nonsense and deployments of hate

Together we’ll sing and together we’ll stand

And we’ll blockade at Büchel

we’ll blockade at Burghfield

Disarm nuclear NATO

These bombs must be banned.

It’s time to start making our world nuclear free

build a future for our children, be the change we want to see

A nuclear ban treaty won’t take very long

So campaign in Berlin

and campaign in London

and campaign round the world

for Together we’re strong

We’ll face them with nonviolence, we’ll face them with song

we’ll blockade their bases, link arms and be strong

we can stop this madness and we must do it now

so we’ll blockade at Büchel

we’ll blockade at Faslane,

we’ll blockade at Burghfield

Start peace-building now.

Yes we’ll blockade together,

Build peace here and now!