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Thread #45195   Message #667848
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
12-Mar-02 - 04:50 PM
Thread Name: ADD: songs for Women's Suffrage
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Suffragettes
There's one other category of non-eligible-to-vote that is left out in the song - peers and royalty.

I was pleased to see "hussy" used in its older sense, meaning housewife, without the derogatory meaning it has rather curiously been landed with.

Hereis a link to the words and the tune of "The March of the Women", which I believe served as the main Anthem for Suffragettes (in England anyway). With a sound file of it being sung. Very rousing.

I'd reckon with a bit of adjustment of the words it'd make a pretty good National Anthem. (Better than Gord Save the Queen, but that's not saying much, so is Pop Goes the Weasel.)