We’re weird about sex in Canada

Do it with consent

We don’t accept it’s good any way

Do it with consent

What difference does it make 

How people screw

So what if it’s different

Than the way you do

We’re weird about sex in Canada

Do it with consent

We have many parts that are so fun

Do it with consent 

Why not make use of every one

Do it with consent

Hands, tongues

Breasts and feet,

Elbows, noses

Butts and teeth, 

And genitals are not the least,

Do it with consent

There are lots of ways of enjoying sex

Do it with consent

It’s time to give condemnation a rest

Do it with consent

If all are able

To agree

Then it does no harm 

To you or me

There are lots of ways of enjoying sex

Do it with consent

Yes

Do it with consent

Yes

Do it with consent

By Laurie Rostholder, for the Seattle Raging Grannies, 2019, adjusted for Canada by Calgary Raging Grannies

Tune: Jesus Loves the Little Children 

Every woman should be safe,

Safe from torture and from rape,

Safe from every form of cruelty by males

Every mother, sister, wife

Has a right to a peaceful life

Men who don’t respect that right should be in jail!

Sing for the safety of the women

All the women of the world

Brown or yellow, black or white

Must be safe by day and night

Let’s eliminate the violence in the world!

• Author:   Sally-Alice Thompson

How much for that weapon in the window

Oh what is the price to be paid…

How much for that weapon in the window

How many new graves will be laid?

How much do we care about children

When WILL we put their concerns first

How much do we care about families

So many young lives will be hurt

How much for that weapon in the window

The price is too high to be paid….

How much for that weapon in the window

So many new graves will be made.

Author: San Francisco Bay Area Raging Grannies; revised by Granny Lynn, Calgary Raging Grannies, 2018

Get us out of the war game,
Get us out, make us proud!

Stop selling weapons like cracker jacks
Peddling guns causes plenty of flack,

So let’s root,
Root, root for the peace game
When we win that we all gain

World War One, World War Two,
World War Three,
We’re all out!
In the old arms game!

Author: Ottawa Raging Grannies

Commentary – CANSEC is Canada’s annual weapons trade show.

see https://www.defenceandsecurity.ca/CANSEC/

The profiteers are coming here and they have come to buy
The gadgets that are on display that burn, explode and fry

And all laid out so they can see
Which ones they’d like to try
At the CANSEC trading show.

E-Y Centre is the venue
So-called security’s the menu

Death is the business of the gang who
Bring the CANSEC trading show.

A business is a business and this one will make the dough

And that is all that matters to the ones who make it go
Don’t care who buy the kill machines
Don’t care who run the show

That’s the CANSEC trading show.

E-Y Centre is the venue
So-called security’s the menu

Death is the business of the gang who
Bring the CANSEC trading show.

We provide the necessary

for each greedy military
Only targets find it scary

It’s the CANSEC trading show.

Author: Ottawa Raging Grannies, 2018

Howe later wrote a “Mother’s Day Proclamation” in 1870 as a pacifist reaction to the Civil War, calling on mothers to come together on a specific day to protest the sad loss of life in war.

The bloody civil war was done

And Julia Howe was sad.

And angered by the carnage

It had been so very bad.

She sent out a call for action

To the women of the land

Let the mothers march for peace.

Sing for peace and social justice

March for peace and social justice

Work for peace and social justice

Make the world a better place!

The struggle may seem endless

But the work must never cease

Take up the precious banner

And the ancient cry for peace.

Join in with your neighbors

And the folks from other lands –

We must all take a stand.

Sing for peace and social justice

March for peace and social justice

Work for peace and social justice

Make the world a better place!

Author: Granny Randy, Calgary Raging Grannies, 2005

All we are saying

Is give peace a chance

All we are saying

Is reach out your hands

Proud men are parading
Their weapons, their guns.

The women are weeping –

Lost husbands and sons

All we are saying

Is give peace a chance

All we are saying

Is reach out your hands.

The children are starving

No home and no bed

They cry in the darkness

Give them peace, give them bread

All we are saying

Is give peace a chance

All we are saying

Is reach out your hands.

Author:  Granny Ute, Calgary Raging Grannies, 2006

Copyright: John Lennon

Our taxes fly over the ocean

To fund every Middle-East war

The money is urgently needed

Right here for the jobless and poor

Our bridges and highways are crumbling

Our education is below par

The money that’s now spent on killing

Could be spent to wage peace and not war

Bring back, bring back

Oh bring back those taxes to here

Bring back, bring back

Then all of us Grannies will cheer.

We should be supporting our students

Who struggle to pay for their loans

We should be supporting our families

Some people are forced from their homes.

We’ve worked mighty hard for that money

We pay every year to the Feds

We don’t want it paying for warfare

We could all have drug care instead.

Bring back, bring back

Oh bring back those taxes to here

Bring back, bring back

Then all of us Grannies will cheer.

Authors: Jane Hare and Vicki Ryder

Join us now, as we walk

People can do more than talk

We can march together

Facing down our fear

Raise our voices loud and clear

Equal treatment would be fair

No more feeling we’re in err

We can march together

Facing down our fear

Raise our voices loud and clear

Equal voice would be fair

No more losing our fair share

We can march together

Facing down our fear

Raise our voices loud and clear

We want safety, we want honour

We will not wait any longer

We can march together

Facing down our fear

Raise our voices loud and clear

Pay us heed,

Listen to us

People power is tre-men-dous

We can march together

Facing down our fear

Raise our voices loud and clear

Author:  Kelowna Raging Grannies

Copyright: none

Look out! ’Cause we are growing bolder!
We’re gaining strength as we grow older!
Our steps they might be slow,
And ’though our boobs are hanging low,
We are Raging Grannies strong!

It’s equity we’re raging for today.
Billionaires get richer while we struggle for fair pay.
While people sleep on sidewalks, Grannies seek another way…
We are Raging Grannies strong!

Look out! ’Cause we are growing bolder!
We’re gaining strength as we grow older!
You can throw us into jail, but by our numbers we’ll prevail.
We are Raging Grannies strong!

They tell us that the Trade Deal is a benefit for all
But corp’rate power always trumps the rights of one and all.
With loss of jobs and secret courts, it’s such a lousy call..
So spread the word it’s wrong.

Climate change is here to stay; it’s hot as hell today!
In other places, homes and farms are being washed away.
Glaciers melt and oceans rise… disasters every day…
And the poor are the first to pay.

Anyone can buy a gun; they’re easy to obtain;
Children get their hands on them, they think it’s just a game.
We’ve got to fight the NRA, they really are insane.
We are Raging Grannies strong!

Author: Vicki Ryder

Copyright: None