Votes For Women
Voices of Equality: Starshine Singers' Anthem for Women's Rights
Lyrics
We have your newspaper headline,
We possess your newspaper headline.
Please make a note.
Please take note of it.
Women fight for equal rights.
Women are actively advocating for equal rights.
We want to vote!
We demand the right to vote.
We have your newspaper headline
We hold your newspaper headline again.
In black and white.
This information is presented plainly.
Women want to vote like men –
Women aspire to vote similarly to men – asserting it as their right.
It is our right.
Emphasizing the entitlement to voting.
Votes for women!
An emphatic call for women to have the right to vote.
Know your place!
Directing a message about knowing one's societal position.
Give us the vote!
Requesting the granting of voting rights.
You’re a disgrace!
Expressing strong disapproval, considering someone a disgrace for opposing women's suffrage.
Votes for women!
A repetition of the demand for women's voting rights.
Know your place!
Reiterating the importance of understanding one's societal role.
Give us the vote!
Re-emphasizing the plea for the right to vote.
You’re a disgrace!
Repeating the strong disapproval for those against women's suffrage.
Women should never have the vote,
Expressing an opposing view that women should not possess the right to vote.
This they should understand.
Stating that this viewpoint should be clear to women.
We say they should know their place.
Asserting that women should acknowledge their societal position.
This protesting should be banned
Suggesting a prohibition on protesting against this viewpoint.
Women should never have the vote.
Reiterating the belief that women should not have voting rights.
Who knows where that would lead?
Expressing uncertainty about the consequences of granting women the right to vote.
We say they should know their place.
Re-emphasizing the importance of women recognizing their societal role.
Suffragettes can not succeed.
Casting doubt on the success of suffragettes' efforts.
Suffragettes can not succeed!
An emphatic repetition: suffragettes cannot succeed.
Well, you can put us in prison,
Addressing the possibility of imprisonment as a consequence of their advocacy.
Send us to jail.
Referring to the act of being sent to jail as a consequence of their actions.
Suffragettes keep marching on:
Despite challenges, suffragettes continue their march, expressing confidence in eventual success.
We shall prevail!
Asserting the belief that they will ultimately triumph.
We have your newspaper headline
Repeating the possession of a newspaper headline, underscoring the importance of their cause.
Please make a note.
Reiterating the request to take note of their cause.
Women fight for equal rights (x3)
Repeating the declaration that women are fighting for equal rights, emphasizing the demand for the vote.
Give us the vote!
A final plea for the right to vote.
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