Cover of The Raging Grannies Songbook. The image depicts older women in festive sun hats adorned with flowers.

Song to Share — War Toys

War Toys

From The Raging Grannies Songbook edited by Jean McLaren and Heide Brown, 1993

Tune: School Days

War toys, war toys, good old fashioned war toys
From popguns, tin soldiers and wooden swords
Rambo, machine guns and Skeletors

These are the things for which they yearn
Think of the useful stuff kids learn
Like how to inflict a laser burn on all of their buddies at school,
(Kazoo and dance the next three lines)

…If they can’t have what’s on TV
They’re screwed up psychologically
They must be prepared for World War III
While they’re still impressionable kids

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