THE NEW AMERICA
[tune: America]

Our country, now from thee
Claim we our liberty
In freedom's name
Guarding home's altar fires
Daughters of patriot sires
Their zeal our own inspires
Justice to claim

Women in every age
For this great heritage
Tribute have paid
Our birth-right claim we now
Longer refuse to bow
On freedom's altar now
Our hand is laid

Sons, will you longer see
Mothers on bended knee
For justice pray?
Rise now, in manhood's might
With earth's great souls unite
To speed the dawning light
Of freedom's day



Sung at the National-American Woman's
Suffrage Convention, 1891, this
song reflects a common suffrage
argument — that giving women
the vote simply fullfilled the
promise of 1776.


Source: http://creativefolk.com/suffrage.pdf