Lyr Add: We Will Not Stop

04 Nov 05 - 12:53 AM (#1597034)
Subject: Lyr Add: We Will Not Stop
From: chico

From Gerri Gribbi's womansong collection

     Am                            G    Am
  |: We will not stop, we will not go away! :|
  
        Am                     Dm          Am
  Well, seventy-two years our foremothers fought
          Dm       G                  Am
  Just to win our right to the ballot box
  But even then they knew that our fight had just begun
  And their daughters will not rest until equality is won.
  
  When they say "NO" to equal rights, whatever the excuse
  They're telling me it's woman's lot to suffer their abuse
  Please put aside the prejudice, please put aside the fears
  We've debated this amendment for over sixty years
  
  

[These words echo a speech made by NOW president Judy Goldsmith in 1983, the day that the newly introduced Equal Rights Amendment was defeated in Congress. (The first Equal Rights Amendment was introduced in 1920, shortly after women gained suffrage.) She reminded her audience that it had taken 72 years for women to win the right to vote, and declared, "We will not stop, and we will not go away."]

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04 Nov 05 - 02:10 AM (#1597061)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We Will Not Stop
From: Joe Offer

Hi, Chico-
Who's the songwriter - Gerri Gribbi?
Where'd you get this song from?
-Joe Offer-

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04 Nov 05 - 09:47 AM (#1597274)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: We Will Not Stop
From: chico

I think she did, her music is at

http://creativefolk.com/

available for download, donation requested (hahahahahah)

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