Lyrics for the Chicago and New Haven songs are available.
Lyrics to the Chicago Band Songs
SECRETARY
Get up / Downtown
Don’t you wish that you could get out of this
No trust / Big bust
Doesn’t all those mumbles ever bother you
Men’s eyes / Fantasize
Memorizing thighs and getting off on you
Elevators / See ya laters
Don’t you think it’s time you had a change of life
Sister I believe you when you say you hate
Sister I could be you but it’s too late
Sister can you hear me. Better break your date
Stop it right now it’s already too late
Sister
Get up / Downtown / Think I’ll talk to Alice she may understand
No trust / Big bust / Wonder if the new girl lives alone
Men’s eyes / Fantasize / Jodi wants to tell the boss to fuck off
Elevators / See you laters / Tell all the girls noon in the lunchroom
And maybe we’ll all wear pants tomorrow!
words and music: Sherry Jenkins
PAPA
Keep on truckin mama, truckin all the livelong day
Keep on truckin mama, truckin all your cares away
Wake up in the morning / Wake up late
Down to the corner to get yourself a date
If you can’t stop doing what you do to me
You’re just gonna run me wild
Papa don’t lay that shit on me, it just don’t compensate
Papa don’t lay that shit on me, I can’t accomodate
You bring me down / It makes you cool
You think I like it you’re a goddamn fool
Papa don’t lay that shit on me, it just don’t compensate
Papa don’t lay those sounds on me, I ain’t your groovy chick
Papa don’t lay those sounds on me, don’t you know they make me sick
Rolling Stones / Blood Sweat & Tears
I’ve taken that shit for too many years
Papa don’t lay those sounds on me, l ain‘t your groovy chick.
Papa l ain‘t your friend no more, ain’t gonna make your bed
Papa l ain‘t your friend no more, better get a dog instead
Back street girl / Under my thumb
Start looking out where you’re coming from
Papa I ain’t your friend no more, I ain’t a gonna make your bed
Papa don’t lay that shit on me, you just don’t turn me on
Papa don’t lay that shit on me, the fun and games are gone
It wasn’t my game / it wasn’t my fun
All that trashing is over and done
Papa don’t lay that shit on me, you just don’t turn me on.
Keep on truckin mama, etc.
music: traditional
words: Virginia Blaisdell, Naomi Weisstein
AIN’T GONNA MARRY
I ain‘t gonna marry / I ain‘t gonna settle down
Ain’t gonna marry /Ain’t gonna settle down
I’m gonna stay right here/And celebrate a freedom that I found.
Ain’t gonna be easy/It ain’t gonna be a life of ease
Ain’t gonna be easy /It ain’t gonna be a life of ease
But I’m a woman/And I’ll be damned if I can’t do as I please.
Ain’t gonna marry / I ain’t gonna be in chains
Ain’t gonna marry I / I ain‘t gonna be in chains
Don’t want no man’s lying / Saturatin‘ my brain.
Big strong woman / with a man hanging round
Big strong women / with a man hanging round
Every evening / that lovin man starts looking around.
Just when you think that / Your lovin’ man is true
Just when you think that / Your lovin’ man is true
You can bet your life / Somebody’s been fooling you.
Ain’t gonna marry (etc.)
Music: traditional
Words:Susan and Jennifer Abod
MOUNTAIN MOVING DAY
The mountain moving day is coming
I say so yet others doubt it
Only a while the mountain sleeps
In the past all mountains moved in fire
Yet you may not believe it
0 man, this alone believe
All sleeping women now awake and move
All sleeping women now awake and move
Can you hear the river
I can see the canyons as they stretch out for miles.
But if you listen you can hear it below
Grinding stones into sand
Yet you may not hear it
0 man, this alone hear
The waters now will tear the canyons down
The waters now will tear the canyons down
The mountain moving day is coming etc.
Music: Naomi Weisstein
Words:Yosano Akiko and Naomi Weisstein
Lyrics to the New Haven Band Songs
ABORTION SONG
We're talkin' about abortion, it's against the law
But we know that it's our right
Control of our bodies we are going to will
We've got to get together and fight
They tell us to get married and have three or four kids
Change the diapers, be a good wife
But we will decide how many children to bear
We've got to control our own life
(Chorus)
Free our sisters, abortion is our right
Free our sisters, abortion is our right
We're talkin' about abortion it's as old as time
Hidden in fear and pain
The witches began it, they were burned at the stake
For helping sisters break their chains
Next came the butchers with their blood-stained hands
We've lost too many sisters that way
Now you go to the doctors and ask them to help
They say come back another day
(Chorus)
We're talkin' about abortion, gonna change the law
And make a better way
Those men with the power got to bend or break
They've got some heavy dues to pay
(Chorus)
words & music: NHWLRB
PRISON SONG
I ain't gonna make it alone /Ain't got no parents and I ain't got no home
I had a baby and you took it away / You leave me nothing and then make me pay
That ain't alright / That ain't alright / That ain't alright with me
You took me to court and then you threw me in jail
And in this place, there ain't no bail
You tell me that I'm evil and you tell me that I'm wrong
That won't break me, it will make me strong
When we get out, things won't be alrght / Jobs will be hard and the money tight
I'm gonna see some lonely nights / Gotta find some people who will help me fight
words & music: NHWLRB
SISTER WITCH
When I look at my sister's face
What is it that I see
I see a strength that I've never seen
And when I feel my sister's embrace
There's all the space and the love that I need
And it's strange, we didn't know
We didn't realize about each other's lives
Oh forgotten woman, forgotten woman, sister witch
In the fight, nobody's wife
Change of life, being strong, being strong
Got to move on, got to move on, got to move on
And take what's ours
It's strange, we didn't know
We didn't realize about each other's lives
Forgotten woman, sister witch
words & music: NHWLRB
SO FINE!
So fine, yeah! / So fine, yeah! / So fine, yeah
Strength of my sisters coming out so fine
Wonder why it's taken us so much time
Wo-o-oh, Ye-a-ah, So fine!
Far out, yeah /far out, yeah / Far out, yeah Loving our sisters is so far out Feeling so good we want to jump and shout Wo-o-oh, Ye-a-ah, Far out!
Talk Break
Now I want to say something about how we got to feel so fine
We haven't always been this strong, and we're not as strong now as we're gonna be.
It takes a lot of work and it takes a lot of pain too.
We used to think that women really were inferior
We used to think we were only good for: pleasing men, having
babies, doing housework, having shit jobs, doing volunteer work,
and-you know-Sex!
We didn't know that women could get together and: play rock music, fix cars, give abortions, love our sisters, stay single, choose our own life style, and-you know-say No!
So high (etc.) Knowing where we're going makes us feel so high Gonna make an earthquake, seize the time Wo-o-oh, ye-a-ah, So high!
So fine (etc.)
words and music: NHWLRB
SHOTGUN
Shotgun! Shotgun! Shotgun! Shotgun! Shoot 'em down right now Rip 'em off sister now Shoot 'em down now!
A thousand women raped each day
We ain't gonna be treated that way
Hating them and angry now
Shoot 'em full of holes now
Walking up and down the street Afraid of every man I meet Had enough and gettin' tough Puttin' on my black belt now!
Buy yourself a shotgun now
Go downtown now
Break it down and load it up
Mess with us you're out of luck
Shotgun!
words & music: NHWLRB