There is a house in New Mexico
in sage and pinyon pines
It was the ruin of many young girls:
The house of the Epstein crimes
The crystal chandeliers shone bright
upon the polished floors
But dread and darkness chilled the air,
and wept behind each door
No lullaby in that wide land,
to calm your frightened cries
No mamma’s care, no daddy’s hand
Just empty gilded lies
O daughters, hurt so deeply
now living with the pain,
you were so young, you could not know
you’d never be the same
Coyotes wail where children prayed
for help
but no one heard
Now Bondi locked their truths away
The victims now are smeared
We must expose this cover-up
of wealthy powerful men,
their cruelties, depravities,
in the house of the Epstein sins
Take your bans off my body
Leave my uterus alone
You have no right to say “yea” or “nay”
It’s my body and my final say!
And if I choose birth or abortion,
I’ll decide in my way
So keep out! - out! - out of my choice
You can have no say!
I don’t mess with your prostate,
I won’t try to castrate
I have respect for your privacy:
Li’l blue pills and your sex fantasies
What if you could find yourself pregnant?
You would holler, “No way!”
So keep out! - out! - out of my choice!
You can have no say!
So keep out! - out! -
out of my choice!
You can have no say!
Every woman should be safe
from brutality and rape
safe from every form of cruelty by males
Every sister, daughter, wife
has a right to peace in life
Men who don't respect that right should be in jail!
Sing for the safety of the women
all the women on the earth
Brown or yellow black or white
must be safe by day and night
Let's respect and honor every woman's worth!
Now we sing for women’s unity,
we raise our voices loud
to support our sisters everywhere:
we’re women and we’re proud!
We are sisters if our skin is black
or white or red or brown
We stand against all forms of hate
and we will not back down
Women power! The patriarchy’s done!
We unite in solidarity, for women’s time has come!
The assaults our autonomy
are more than forcing birth
Men think they should control us
and our lives do not have worth
We’ll fight them in the courts
and in the streets and at the polls
They’ll never shut us up
or force us back to days of old
Women power! The patriarchy’s done!
We unite in solidarity for women’s time has come!
Of the myth of male supremacy
you will be disabused
Don’t mess around with women’s rights,
or we are not amused
We are fearless and impassioned
and invincible and strong
And we demand our equal rights,
we’ve waited far too long
Women power! The patriarchy’s done!
We unite in solidarity for women’s time has come!
Women power! We will not be ignored
We’re a force that must be reckoned with -
We’re women: HEAR US ROAR!!
BATTLE HYMN OF WOMEN
Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the fire of women's rage,
kept smoldering for centuries, now flaming in this age
We won’t be owned as property, we will not be enslaved
For women’s time has come!
Now women-hating men have taken power across the land
They’ve legalized misogyny, just like the Taliban
They want complete control of us, but now we take a stand
Their tyranny be damned!
Rise up, women! Join together!
Solidarity forever!
We shall not retreat – not ever!
For women’s time has come!
The patriarchy’s over now, we claim our rightful power
We’ll build a new society, with caring at its core,
and never raise our children to be fodder for men’s wars
For women’s time has come!
So join the revolution to regain our civil rights
We’re many millions strong and we will win when we unite
We’ll stop the persecution, though it’s gonna be a fight
For women’s time has come!
Rise up, women! Join together!
Solidarity forever!
We shall not retreat – not ever!
For women’s time has come!
The freedoms and rights that we know
They ain’t necessarily so
We always expected our rights were respected
It ain’t necessarily so
For years they were packing the courts
to make it a crime to abort
& all the Republicans just like to drub women:
crushing our rights is a sport
Alito said, “Nix privacy!”
He likes to see brutality
Beer Brett is a fool, Clarence Thomas a tool
They seem to love theocracy
And judge Amy Coat-hanger Barrett
was rammed through regardless of merit
‘cause she was selected to betray her sex
She’s a partisan hack like the rest
We’re under attack - this is war!
Our lives are what we’re fighting for!
What we need this hour are women in power
to show all the sexists the door!
Come gather ‘round people, we want you to hear
about losing the freedoms we’ve come to hold dear
Religious Supremes work to turn back the years
And the harm that they do is wide-ranging
Now it’s time for our protests to shift into gear
For the laws they are a-changing!
Now five right-wing zealots presume to decree
that our laws must be based on defunct history
1789 is the year that they see
as the golden age they’re re-creating:
back before civil rights when just rich men were free
But it’s they who should be changing!
Young women who grew up with freedoms don’t know
how savage it gets under right-wing control
But we who lived through it, our battle scars show:
there’s a reason for all of this raging
There isn’t a bottom to how low they’ll go
and the laws, they are a-changing!
They’re intent on killing free-e-doms,
and it’s more than Roe v. Wade
They want state control of women
and they want us all afraid
They assault female autonomy
and it’s more than forcing birth
‘cause they see us as their property
and our lives do not have worth
When they talk about the “right to life,”
they mean fetuses unborn
After birth some babies have no rights
and the mother’s life is scorned
If they cared about life’s ”sanctity”
they’d end massacres in schools,
end the homelessness and poverty -
But instead they’re just plain cruel
We must start a revolution
to reclaim our civil rights
We will stop this persecution
And it’s gonna be a fight
We will not live in the Handmaid’s Tale
We refuse to be abused
We will not be terrorized by males
We’ll be free to live and choose!
Step by step and ever forward
though the road be dark and long
Keep on marching ever forward
Women of the world, be strong!
For our sisters ev-er-y-where
we lift up our voices, make them ring
Women of the world together
For the rights of all, we sing
We shall end the pain and sorrow,
drive the dark of fear away
Help our sisters claim their power
We begin anew today
It’s our time to claim victory
together we join to light the night!
Open doors ‘till all are free
Oh, women of the world unite!
Step by step and ever forward
Onward ‘til we’ve won the fight
Arm in arm, we’re strong together
women of the world unite!
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