THE ENERGY DEBT SONG
(tune 'St Anne' https://bit.ly/3V2mgJm )
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.
This was sung by self and other activists at a street stall in Cambridge in November 2022. It versifies a petition arising from the cost-of-living crisis. The tune is William Croft's splendid melody often used for 'O God, our help in ages past'. I like to hope it lends the present words a little of its dignity.
