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Thread #45195   Message #666811
Posted By: nutty
11-Mar-02 - 07:30 AM
Thread Name: ADD: songs for Women's Suffrage
Subject: ADD: The Suffragettes
Given the present woman/man's place threads that are on Mudcat at present I thought I might post this as my comment.
I'm not sure where I copied these words from ...... but someone may recognise them


THE SUFFRAGETTES
(H. Crawford)

Here's to the baby of five or fifteen
Here's to the widow of fifty
Here's to the flaunting extravagant queen
And here's to the hussy that's thrifty

CHORUS
Please to take note - they are in the same boat
They have not a chance of recording the vote

Here's to the lunatic helpless and lost
Of wits, well, he simply has none, sir
Here's to the woman who lives by her brains
And is treated as though she has none, sir

Here's to the criminal lodged in the goal
Voteless for what he has done, sir
Here's to the man with a dozen of votes
If a woman, he would not have one, sir

Here's to the lot of them, murderer, thief,
Forger and lunatic too, sir
Infants and those who get Parish Relief
And WOMEN, its perfectly true, sir