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