animalsong.org
Songs, stories, and poems for an ethical world. Started in 1995, refreshed in 2026. Original works by Mohan Embar — free to listen to, download, share, and use in unchanged form by avowed animal rightists with attribution.
→ Listen to all of them on one page (jukebox view)
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Antilullaby
A lullaby-like song warning against becoming desensitized to animal suffering.
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Companion Animal
On the responsibility of taking in an animal who depends on you.
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Farmer Boy
A father tells his son not to cry over the calves. About inherited silence, and the cost of looking away.
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Fight We Shall
A defiant call to keep showing up — for the factory-farmed, the tested-on, the trapped, the hunted.
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The Greatest Gift
On time passing, on what we hand on, and on the gift of a life as the greatest gift of all.
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Here
A welcome song for a rescued animal arriving at sanctuary — finally, no one can hurt you here.
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How Can We Do It?
An anguished refrain about complicity — every purchase, a small turning-away.
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Listen to Chief Seattle
Inspired by Chief Seattle's words — the web of life, and our part in unraveling it.
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My God Says
A theological reckoning — what if Pure Love does not give us permission to kill?
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Osteoporosis
A dialogue between a milk-pushing doctor and a skeptical patient. Bone health, reconsidered.
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The Racist
A story-song that follows a racist through an ordinary day — and the moral parallel we'd rather not see.
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Not a Vegetable new
A new song. Cover only — no piano render or sheet music yet.
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Sabine
A young woman from 2290 falls through a hole in time and lands in 1990.
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Sabine: Five Years Later
A sequel. Five years on, we revisit Sabine.
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Two Unruly Children
A grown-up frame story containing a retold Little Red Riding Hood.
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The Apple Tree and the Oak Tree
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Little Red Riding Hood
A retelling that abolishes the original.
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Let's Not Forget
A poem about the food-animal industry.
Why Animal Rights?
An essay/FAQ on animal rights and vegetarianism, originally written in the 1990s.
Vegetarianism: An Offensive Stand
A 1990s nutrition factsheet by John McDougall, M.D.