Government Benefits

Tune of My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean

Our "Government Benefit Payments"
Are not by the Government paid.
This new phrase just made to confuse us;
A new term for payments WE made!

Bring back, bring back, bring back our "Social Security"
We earned, and we saved, that money for you and for me!

For forty-plus years we each worked hard;
Our pay was deducted each time.
Without any choice, we all gave up
That money: it's yours and it's mine!

Bring back, bring back, bring back our "Social Security"
We earned, and we saved, that money for you and for me!

Our faces are wrinkled; our skin sags.
Our hair may be gray, but we know
The difference between truth and lying!
We won't let this dirty trick grow!

Bring back, bring back, bring back our "Social Security"
We earned, and we saved, that money for you and for me!

Grannies Marlies and Jude and the Raging Grannies of Greater Westerly, Rhode Island