Hungry Children Song

Photo: NoKidHungry

Hungry Children

tune: Over the Rainbow

by Nora Freeman, 9/20/13

Right here, in America

There exist

Children who don’t have enough food

They are in our midst

Each day, they go to school with

Emptiness

Grumbling in their tummies

How can they learn like this

                No oatmeal, berries, yogurt or

                chicken, carrots, or cole slaw     

                Sustain them

                Some wonder why they don’t care to

                Read or write like others do

                But their hunger

                Drains them

Food stamps help their families

To provide

Enough and more nutritious food

So these kids can thrive

Farmers’ markets and gardens

Help a lot

But parents need money to buy food

And that’s what so many have not

                Their kids need good food just the same

                As yours and mine, so

                We should be ashamed!

Nora Freeman is a member of a singing group called the “Raging Grannies” that performs occaisionally at South (Presbyterian) Church in Dobbs Ferry, NY. 

Thanks to Stephen F. Groth, a Bread for the World member in Ardsley, New York, for sharing this song with us.