Selling Arms to Saudi Arabia

Lyrics by: Leah Simkin and Margaret Godbeer
Gaggle: Montreal Raging Grannies
Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Date Written or Updated: 2018

How much for those tanks in the desert
That General Dynamics will build
To be used and abused by the Saudis
And causing us all lots of guilt.

CHORUS:
Cancel, cancel,
Cancel all arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Cancel, Cancel, cancel all sales of arms!

The billions we earn are blood money
Are the jobs worth the killing they’ll cause?
This contract is really quite horrid
This contract has too many flaws!

CHORUS:
Cancel, cancel,
Cancel all arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Cancel, Cancel, cancel all sales of arms!

The Grannies are really quite angry
That Canada has signed this deal.
The Saudis are really quite happy
That our arms will help them to kill!

CHORUS:
Cancel, cancel,
Cancel all arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Cancel, Cancel, cancel all sales of arms!