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*** HISTORY ROCK *** (1974)
Sufferin' Till Suffrage
Music: Bob Dorough
Lyrics: Tom Yohe
Sung by: Essra Mohawk
- Key to symbols within the lyrics
- >> Yeah!... Hurray!
- Now you have heard
- Of women's rights
- And how we've tried
- To reach new heights
- If we're all created equal,
- That's us too.
- >> Yeah!
- But you will proba-
- Bly not recall...
- That it's not been
- Too long at all,
- Since we even had the right to
- Cast a vote.
- >> Well...
- Well sure some men
- Bowed down and called us misses,
- >> Yeah!
- Let us hang the wash out,
- And wash the dishes,
- >> Huh...
- But when the time rolled around
- To elect a president
- What did they say, sisters?
- >> What did they say?
- They said, uh, see you later,
- Alligator, and don't forget my, my...
- My mashed potatoes,
- Because I'm going downtown to
- Cast my vote for president.
- But we were sufferin',
- Until suffrage,
>> Whoah...
- Not a woman here could vote
- No matter what age.
- Then the 19th Amendment
- Struck down that restrictive rule.
- >> Oh yeah!
- Now we pull down
- On the lever
- Cast our ballots,
- And we endeavor
- To improve our country,
- State, county, town and school.
- >> Tell 'em bout it!
- Those pilgrim women who
- Who braved the boat
- >> They cook, cook, cooked!
- Could cook the turkey, but they,
- They could not vote
- Even Betsy Ross who sewed the flag
- Was left behind that first election day.
- >> What a shame, sisters!
- Then Susan B.
- Anthony
- >> Yeah!
- and Julia Howe,
- >> Lucretia!
- Lucretia March,
- >> And others!
- They showed us how,
- They carried signs
- And marched in lines
- Until at long last
- The law was passed.
- Oh we were sufferin',
- Until suffrage,
- Not a woman here could vote
- No matter what age.
- Then the 19th Amendment
- Struck down that restrictive rule.
- >> Oh yeah!
- And now we pull down
- On the lever
- Cast our ballots,
- And we endeavor
- To improve our country,
- State, county, town and school.
- Yes the 19th Amendment
- Struck down that restrictive rule.
- Yes the 19th Amendment
- Struck down that restrictive rule.
- >> Yeah, yeah!
- <We've got 'em now!>
- Since 1920, Sisters Unite! Oh lord!
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