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Subject: ADD: Rap: Honey You Got No Right From: GUEST,vorblesnak Date: 15 Jul 22 - 11:17 PM It's rough and more of a rap than a lyric but you can put what you want behind it for impact. Mel Brooks did a rap on Hitler that you can find on you tube and that comes to mind as an example. Use it as you like. Honey You Got No Right There's a Greek facade up on the hill Where the jurists met, they meet there still They heard the tale the religious right Spoilin still that long lost fight Is a woman free or simply chattel A rich man toy just snuggle cattle Does she own her body or does she not Honey, you got no right It's a simple tumor made by two The reality dawn from that midnight screw You can treat the drip, or cure the clap But you flush that lump, that's a felony rap That lattice made law back in eighty nine That list the rights that it defines Is a woman's body her soul possession? Honey, you got no right Don't talk to me about nine tenths law You ain't in the list, you don't own it at all He takes a screw with no repentance Just try and abort, you get a life sentence The old constitution just talks about men They lined it out again and again What a man can do and what he can't But honey, you got no right
If you're posting several songs by the same author, it's a good idea to post them together in one thread, like you did here (click). Thanks. -Joe Offer, Mudcat Music Editor- |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: Pete from seven stars link Date: 15 Jul 22 - 04:23 PM I’m curious about twelve minutes to midnight by iron maiden with the repeated line ‘ to kill the unborn in the womb ‘ Then there’s a song by gospel artist Julie Miller , with the line in the chorus “ a dangerous place to be , a mothers womb , is a dangerous place to be ‘ |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: Mrrzy Date: 14 Jul 22 - 07:54 AM I am thinking of a parody I do not like this pregnancy I want the fetus out of me! Would you, could you, in a boat? Yes I would have one on a boat It isn't up to some old goat If my doc says I can abort I'll sail far from a US port! I do not want this pregnancy Yes, take this fetus out of me! |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: Neil D Date: 06 Jul 22 - 02:19 AM The Well Below the Valley |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: Neil D Date: 06 Jul 22 - 02:18 AM |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: Mrrzy Date: 05 Jul 22 - 03:50 PM Trinidadian? Maybe? Raggae tune called Wanted Children Almost every murder ballad where boy kills girl Almost every ballad where girl kills self out of love of boy |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: GUEST Date: 04 Jul 22 - 11:31 AM “Driving With The Brakes On” - Del Amitri? |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 04 Jul 22 - 10:26 AM The thread would hardly be complete without the rugby song: And yes, I know there's already a version in the database. My God How The Money Rolls In (to the tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean") CHORUS: Rolls in, rolls in, My God how the money rolls in, rolls in, Rolls in, rolls in, My God how the money rolls in. My father makes book on the corner, My mother makes illicit gin, My sister sells kisses to sailors, My God how the money rolls in. My cousin's a Harley Street surgeon, With instruments long, sharp, and thin, He only does one operation, My God how the money rolls in. My sister's a barmaid in Sydney, For a shilling she strips to the skin, She's stripping from morning to midnight, My God how the money rolls in. My brother's a slum missionary, He saves fallen women from sin, He'll save you a blonde for a guinea, My God how the money rolls in. My mother's a bawdy house keeper, Every night when the evening grows dim, She hangs out a little red lantern, My God how the money rolls in. My grandad sells cheap prophylactics, And punctures them all with a pin, For grandma gets rich from abortions, My God How the money rolls in. I've lost all me cash on the horses, I'm sick from the illicit gin, I'm falling in love with my father, My God what a mess I'm in. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: GUEST Date: 04 Jul 22 - 09:45 AM The Magdalene Laundries - Joni Mitchell |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: GUEST,keberoxu Date: 01 Jul 22 - 09:05 AM Mention, honorable or otherwise, to the lyric by Lana Day Bogan for "Unborn Child" set to music by Jim Seals, sung by Seals & Crofts. Some say this lyric, with its Baha'i pro-life orientation, brought down the duo's career altogether. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: GUEST Date: 01 Jul 22 - 03:44 AM Backyard Abortion Waltz by Australian singer Judy Small. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 28 Jun 22 - 10:10 PM Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols 1977 Virgin/Warner Brothers, Song Title - "Bodies" Vocals - Johnny Rotten Lyrics - Lydon John, Cook Paul Thomas, Jones Stephen Philip, Beverley John Simon She was a girl from Birmingham She just had an abortion She was case of insanity Her name was Pauline, she lived in a tree She was a no one who killed her baby She sent her letters from the country She was an animal She was a bloody disgrace Body! I'm not an animal Body! I'm not an animal Dragged on a table in factory Illegitimate place to be In a packet in a lavatory Die little baby screaming Body screaming fucking bloody mess Not an animal It's an abortion Body! I'm not animal Mummy! I'm not an abortion [Spoken] Throbbing squirm, gurgling bloody mess I'm not a discharge I'm not a loss in protein I'm not a throbbing squirm Fuck this and fuck that Fuck it all and fuck a fucking brat She don't wanna baby that looks like that I don't wanna baby that looks like that Body, I'm not an animal Body, an abortion Body! I'm not an animal Body! I'm not an animal An animal I'm not an animal..... I'm not an abortion..... Mummy! UGH! Sincerely, Gargoyle There is plenty of room at the table and always room for one more. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: GeoffLawes Date: 27 Jun 22 - 04:41 AM List of songs about abortion from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_abortion |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: GUEST,IS Date: 27 Jun 22 - 04:38 AM I always thought that the Fugazi song 'Reclamation' might be about abortion. "These are our demands/We want control of our bodies/Decisions will now be ours" |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: Daniel Kelly Date: 27 Jun 22 - 03:34 AM Tam lin. |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 26 Jun 22 - 03:14 PM "Act of Love" by Neil Young (featuring Pearl Jam) (1995) A song about abortion that Young was inspired to record with Pearl Jam after playing it live with the band at a Voters for Choice benefit concert.[10][11] Young commented on the song thusly: "See, personally, I'm pro-choice. But the song isn't! This isn't an easy subject to confront head-on. People who say that human beings shouldn't have the right to dismiss a human life - they have a point. You can't dismiss that point. But then there's the reality. There's idealism and reality, the two have got to come together yet there are always major problems when they do." See Wikipedia; List of songs about abortion |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: GUEST,henryp Date: 26 Jun 22 - 02:56 PM Vin Garbutt passionately opposes abortion. He writes songs, Little Innocents and The Secret being well known among them, driven by that position. I disagree fundamentally with him. But my support for women's rights on abortion is not quite so strong as my belief in free speech. Colin Randall July 23, 2007 In Lynda he upholds the value of every life and tells the story of a woman who refused to let her disabled son be one of the babies whose lives are ended because of disability - including 90% of all babies with Down's Syndrome. In Dish of Glass he also challenges laws that have allowed destructive experiments on millions of British human embryos. Independent Catholic News 2018 |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: Phil Cooper Date: 26 Jun 22 - 01:10 PM Here's the word to the Patrick Sky song I can't find a youtube link for it: Message: Dirge to Love Gone By -- by Patrick Sky C 1967 Rabelaisian Music For the sake of the song, I'll just call her Helen A child of society, both parents dead Up until now, she had no police record She committed a felony, so it is said. In her second month, she tells us the story How she tried to abort but without success By drinking some ergot with pepper mixed in it With the aid of a close friend, they both did their best. She prayed and she prayed but her prayers were not answered Impressed in her mind that she must bear the child And she said on that day while cleaning the stairway Came a pain in her belly, like a knife in her side. Twelve hours later, half-mad with her labor As she lay on her thin sheets, numb from the cold With half-frozen fingers she delivered a boychild And the birth of her child was the death of her soul. No doctor would heal her, no priest would confess her, As she lay in her bed, eyes fixed in a stare And the cries of her child were stilled by her raving Racked by the pain as she pulled at her hair. She couldn't remember just how long she lay there It might have been hours, it seemed more like weeks She said that the child had long stopped its crying For she beat it with her fists until it had ceased. Yesterday Helen she died in her prison cell Bringing to bear on the sins of us all An unmarried mother, convicted of murder Her only possession was a badly worn shawl. Copied from the jacket of "Photographs" by Patrick Sky |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: Phil Cooper Date: 26 Jun 22 - 01:04 PM Peggy Seeger also wrote a song titled It's a Matter of Choice. Patrick Sky wrote a song called Dirge to Love Gone By on this Photographs album which is a singable rewrite of a Bertolt Brecht poem. |
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Subject: ADD: Judge's Chair (Peggy Seeger) From: Joe Offer Date: 24 Jun 22 - 08:41 PM This would be a good place to post lyrics. THE JUDGE'S CHAIR (Peggy Seeger) I don't want the boy with the long brown hair I don't want the one with the curls I want Jimmy and the devil-may-care, Jimmy's good with the girls He took the girl with the long brown hair I don't want the one with the curls He took me, and the devil may care, And Jimmy's good with the girls Come and walk in the Autumn woods Come and walk in the town She walked with him to the end of the earth And together they lay down Annie, the light that's in your eyes Tells your lover's name Annie, the hope that's in your heart Will turn to grief and shame Sunday, Monday passing by Thursday, Friday too Annie walks in the winter sun A week past she was due Two weeks, three weeks passing by Three and four and five Annie walked in the winter rain And wished that she could die December past, the New Year gone Judgement Day has come The doctor sat in the judge's chair And the judges turned her down Jimmy won't walk, Jimmy won't talk Jimmy won't come around Annie's gone to a backstreet woman To bring the baby down Pain floods into that place Where love has come and gone Close the door, and close the door And Annie's walkin' home Slowly, slowly up the stair Into her childhood room Her bed filled up with red, red blood Annie died alone She won't have the boy with the long brown hair She won't have the one with the curls She got Jimmy and the devil-may-care And Jimmy's good with the girls Men sit in the judges chair— We are up on trial Woman, if you conceive You must bear your child https://peggyseeger.bandcamp.com/track/the-judges-chair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhfdQMJX4Pc |
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Subject: RE: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: GUEST,estelle Date: 24 Jun 22 - 07:35 PM Malvina Reynolds, "Rosie Jane, are you pregnant again" 1973, lyrics on Mudcat https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5085, and Back Alley Surgery 1977 http://www.vagalume.com.br/malvina-reynolds/back-alley-surgery.html, Note the intro to Rosie Jane: This song is addressed to my sisters Any man who is present may listen Any priest, any public official, any physician But it gives him no license to touch us We make the decision Me and Lydia, Josie and Rosie and Eve We handle this matter ourselves You'd better believe, or you better leave |
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Subject: Songs about abortion, or lack thereof? From: GUEST,Karen Impola Date: 24 Jun 22 - 07:17 PM Rhiannon Giddens just posted herself singing Peggy Seeger's song "The Judge's Chair" on Facebook, in response to today's Supreme Court decision. I can only think of a few other songs on the subject: Kat Eggleston - The Stranger Susan Werner - Manhattan, Kansas Frankie Armstrong - The Song of The Second Serving Maid Anyone got more? |
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