Deb Dare
Deb (from 1989 letter): “I’ve been writing songs for 7 years now, political antinuclear /feminist music … solidarity songs, domestic violence, incest, South Africa, current Australian political issues, environmental and a growing number of spiritual/womyn songs … The majority have been sung at political gatherings, rallies, womyn’s cabarets, fundraisers etc.” 2022: blue mountains singer song writer for 30 yrs. social justice, spiritual, peace storytelling. currently working on 3rd cd ‘lay down – warriors and angels’. see Facebook address
Some of Deb’s songs were included on The Pine Gap tape and featured in TV documentaries “Fighting for Peace” and “Looking for a Garden”. In 1986 she recorded Arise! with women’s band Wave, featuring five of her own songs.
1983 Hiroshima Day – Sydney Quay stage: 100,000 people. With the Band – WAVE – Women Against Violence and Exploitation
Listen to Songs By Deb Dare
Take the Toys from the Boys – Original WAVE Version
Song Lyrics
Weren’t we there when they were born,
Weren’t we there when families were torn,
Weren’t we there when they went to war
No more war
Take the toys from the boys
No more war
Take the toys from the boys
No more war
Take the toys from the boys
No more war
Weren’t we there when our children cried,
Weren’t we there when the politicians lied,
Weren’t we there when the soldiers died.
No more war
Take the toys from the boys
No more war
Take the toys from the boys
No more war
Take the toys from the boys
No more war
We are here now,the movement has begun,
We are here now, the webs are being spun,
We are here now to sing our song.
No more war
Take the toys from the boys
No more war
Take the toys from the boys
No more war
Take the toys from the boys
No more war.
Take the Toys from the Boys
‘In November 1983 over 800 women of all ages and backgrounds, led by local Pitjinjara women, gathered at the gates of the Pine Gap base and stayed there for two weeks. They sang and danced, they cut and climbed military fences and they met with the local Aboriginal women. The Women for Survival desert peace camp changed the lives of the women … Worldwide, all-women’s peace actions were loudly drumming “take the toys from the boys”, especially at the cruise missile depot at Greenham Common in Britain (Speech by Lee Rhiannon at the function held in the NSW Parliament to mark the 20th anniversary of the women-only Pine Gap protest, 26 April 2018)
Listen to Deb Dare: Take the Toys from the Boys (No more War) Pine Gap version
For the Earth – WAVE version
(from 1989 letter) ” In many ways, I think Earth is one of my best songs from those early days” .
Song Lyrics
We are women, we are crying
We are singing for the earth;
Wind is blowing, rivers flowing
Trees are growing on the earth.
Don’t give up now, times are changing
Keep on trying for the earth
No more soldiers, no more slaughter
No more missiles on the earth.
Take the silence, speak your own words
Free our spirits for the earth.