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  1. Don't Go Frackin' Round in My Backyard

I wrote this song when gas companies wanted to exploit landowners to lease their land for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) -- which in its entirely is bad for everyone, bad for people, communities, water quality, the environment, even financially it was detrimental to landowners. The only ones who benefitted would be the corporations, and their slick salespersons, the landmen.

Lyrics

DON’T GO FRACKIN’ ROUND IN MY BACKYARD
Landman went to see old Farmer DanLandman went to see old Farmer DanSaid “Let’s sign a lease on all your land,Get all the natural gas we can!”Landman went to see old Farmer Dan
 
Now Farmer Dan is smarter than a foxKnows he’s got what the landman hasn’t gotSaid “I’ll sign your lease if it’s fair and squareAn’ you leave me plenty clean water to spare.”Farmer Dan’s got the landman in a box
 
And he said:Don’t go frackin’ round in my backyardDon’t go frackin’ round in my backyardIf you ain’t gonna keep my water cleanAnd try to pull a fast one on me, thenDon’t go frackin’ round in my backyard
 
The landman said “Now come on, Farmer DanTrust me, cause I’m an honest manTrust the EPA, trust the DEC, and trust my Big Gas companyI tell ya true, I’m an honest man!”
 
Now Farmer Dan said “Wait a minute, sonI ain’t so keen on trustin’ anyone.Ya gotta clean up any mess you makeAnd put back any ol’ water you takeI ain’t so keen on trustin anyone!”
 
Don’t go frackin’ round in my backyardDon’t go frackin’ round in my backyardIf you ain’t gonna keep my water cleanAnd try to pull a fast one on me, thenDon’t go frackin’ round in my backyard
 
Well, the landman had enough of this charadeGulped down the last of Dan’s lemonadeSaid “You don’t have a choice and this is why,Compared with us, you’re just small-fry!”He left and cried “We’ll take it anyway!”
 
Farmer Dan jumped up and off his chairMade a vow to himself then and there“I’m gonna fight for what is right,Get some honest to goodness oversightAnd force them little snakes to start dealin’ fair!”
 
They won’t go frackin’ round in my backyardThey won’t go frackin’ round in my backyardIf they ain’t gonna keep my water cleanAnd try to pull a fast one on meThey won’t go frackin’ round in my backyard
 
They won’t go frackin’ round in my backyardThey won’t go frackin’ round in my backyardThey won’t go frackin’ round in my backyard