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Last year, I was involved in a province-wide labour action. I had long procrastinated writing a picket line song. So I did.

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Hold the line
Sean McGaughey © February 19, 2020

Recording capo3 Key of Eb

C
We did not draw this line
G
But we will walk this line
F
We will hold the line together
C-F G
We. Will. Not. Cross.
C
We Stand in Line
G
We can redraw the line.
F
Unity is strength
C-G C
we can stand up to the Boss

1)
C
Every decade or so, another con regime
F C G
concocts a crisis in public education
C
They hobble and cut until a shell remains
F G- G7
A fire-sale for their cronies has always been the scheme.

Chorus

2)
But parents and teachers can dance their dance again
With all its familiar steps and turns.
They use slander and half-truths to advance their plans
We have won before, we will fight them and win.

Chorus

Bridge
Am Em
A frog in a cauldron doesn’t really notice
Am Em
When the comfortable water becomes dangerously hot
Am Em
So when left to simmer in a pressure cooker
Dm Dm/C G G7
It could be boiled alive or it could jump out of the pot

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from Year With No Spring (2020 Yearbook), released January 4, 2021
Sean McGaughey: Guitar and Vocals

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Sean McGaughey Ontario

I am a folk singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and children's entertainer in Simcoe County Ontario. By day, I am a mild-mannered Elementary School teacher-librarian.

Since 2013, I have been participating the the February Album Writing Month Challenge at fawm.org to write 14 songs in February.

This year I challenged myself to up my musicianship and production values. This is the result. ... more

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