Pissed-Off Grannies and the ERA We raging grannies are here todayTo ask you about the ERA.So just listen and help us find outWhy we still don’t have it yet: In 1923, Alice Paul did say:“We women don’t have equal rights today.”So, she wrote down an amendment That we call the ERA. But the old men in the Congress Who’d been in charge…
Chorus: When you want things changed, call in your sisters Call in your mothers, Call in the grannies! There’s no power on earth that can resist us, Because we hold u-p , half the sky. We never will forget, grandma was a suffragist. We’re fighting still for voting rights, and some don’t have them yet. But we won’t sit and…
In seventeen seventy-six American persons were white men. Their wives were their possessions. Women had no standing then. They couldn’t vote, own property. Their lives their husbands ran. Till brave women thought they’d better take this thing in hand. CHORUS: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells, and Lucy Stone Names th-at should be sung. They gave…
There was a time not long ago, it’s sad but true, Women were kept from voting booths, they couldn’t get through. Women were governed by men in their lives; Gave up their property when they became wives Until some stood up ‘cause change was overdue. In eighteen hundred and seventy-two, Hooray! Hooray! Susan B. knew what to do, Hooray! Hooray!…
(This song helps you remember the names of the 5 women who got the vote and a statue on parliament hill. It works well with a stuffed granny to throw around). In 1928 Canadian persons all were men – (??) (Stop & look dumbfounded, then start again, more vigourously) In 1928 Canadian persons all were men Their wives were their…
