PORT TOWNSEND — They are children of the ’60s who in many cases vigorously and vocally opposed the Vietnam War.
These days the members of the Port Townsend Raging Grannies still rage — but with smiles on their faces and parody protest songs in their hearts.
The group of eight grannies and two male guitar-players they call “grumps” will melodically rage before Jefferson County’s public access TV cameras at noon Tuesday.
Laureen Martin, a Port Townsend resident, pens most of the Grannies lyrics.
Depleted uranium munitions, which Navy officials admit are housed in bunkers across the bay from Port Townsend at Naval Magazine Indian Island, is one issue Martin tackles in “The Insane Crane.”
It’s set to the to the tune of “The Little Man Who Wasn’t There”:
“The Navy’s got a crane across the bay!
“We know what it’s doing there,
“Though they won’t say!
“And what it’s doing there
“Is what’s insane!
“That crane has got to go away.”
Other Martin lyrics set to musical standards:
* “Bye-bye, Our Town,” to the tune, “Bye-bye Blackbird.”
* “No One Mentions the Nuclear Submarines,” to the tune of “Yellow Submarine.”
* “Nuclear War Chit-Chat,” to the tune of “When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along.”
The Raging Grannies’ 30-minute performance will be videotaped for later broadcast on Port Townsend’s PTTV Channel 48 at the Gael Stuart Building at Port Townsend High School.
Like most of PTTV’s shows, it will aired on subsequent dates on the public-access channel.
The channel is available only in Jefferson County.
