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

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

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

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: UnCon Grannies; Vicki Ryder

Date Last Used by YYC Grannies:  2016

Copyright: None