Low Down NIMBY Blues

Here's a song I passed onto a fellow Trent graduate living in the hills of Rupert, so he could sing it with his ukelele at a recent Council meeting on the proposed sewage treatment plant planned on the Gatineau. Mr. Sanderson, you have my respect and my ear...



My neighbour tried to dump his garbage in my back yard


But I only wanna see my own garbage in my back yard

He laughed at me and told me to mind my own beeswax

So I built a fence to keep his garbage out of my back yard


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I keep reading and singing those low down NIMBY blues

Cause the powers we employ ain’t giving us no clues

We say it’s messin’ up the balance and foolin’ Mother Nature

They say it’s the only way to safeguard Our future



Now Monsewer Mayor wants to build a sewer in our back yard

But we drink the water and swim butt naked in our back yard

I didn’t like it when they told me to just take some Exlax

So I wrote a song to keep MRC’s (bull)shit out of my back yard