Tom Neilson, peace and social justice advocate, has been writing songs for over 50 years. He wrote this song for our action here in Asheville, just this spring! It will appear on his next album. Check out his many other songs on SoundClick.

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Lyrics
Pratt & Whitney’s a Raytheon Division
And they say they make their engines with precision
They gave Asheville a financial provision
It’s always good to grease a palm when you want to drop a bomb
And it helps when you buy the decision.
Now if Asheville wants to go and drop a bomb
They’ll have a brand new engine from Pratt & Whitney Raytheon
It doesn’t matter that the planes don’t fly
They just want a piece of the pie
While they feed their money to the Pentagon
We’re building engines for planes that don’t fly;
F35s just fall from the sky
We’re building engines & we don’t ask why Just want a piece of the pie
For aerostructure, military avionics Aeronautical system electronics
They’ll pollute your water and your soil, then go & get the gas & oil
Critical thought is in a state of catatonics
Now Asheville has cyber security
It can build a plane to bomb an enemy
It doesn’t matter where, the engines take ‘em there
How it works in a war economy
We’re building engines for planes that don’t fly; F35s fall from the sky
We’re building engines & we don’t ask why Just want a piece of the pie
On Earth Day, Asheville earth Protectors Conversion economy architectors
For two hours shut down the war industry
No war machine making in their community
Citations for these Raytheon rejectors
We’re building engines for planes that don’t fly; F35s fall from the sky
We’re building engines & we don’t ask why Just want a piece of the pie
100 million in subsidies to cut down all the trees Environment toxicities, human calamities
War is leading to extinction; you’ll go out with out distinction
I guess you better ask why. Not a good piece of the pie It’s time to answer the call. Reject Raytheon we say, Let’s work for the day When there’s plenty of pie for all.