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Women of America tell you
America is not a democracy
We women of America tell you
We don't work for the aristocracy
We women of America tell you
We won't be denied our right to vote
We women of America tell you
Women of America tell you

We are here, hear our voice (Vote)
We are here, hear our voice (Vote)
We are here, hear our voice (Vote)
We are here, hear our voice (Vote)

("The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.")

This fine suffragist Alice Paul
Earned degrees in economics and the law
She found her drive by protesting in Britain 
Head held high, she knew she'd found her mission
 
Paul made her voyage across the sea
Not knowing what her destiny would be
But Alice was convinced she carried the key
To piss off,  America's 'stocracy
 
Organized protest to gain the women's vote
Went straight to the big house 
In uniform (White coat)
Put each suffragist to the test
She was a pain in his ass, she self-confessed

I knew to be heard, I'd have to be a pest
Politicians only took my words for jest
Until one day they saw in the distance
Women marching heading a resistance

President Wilson was warned we were comin'
His celebration speech, well, it was a-bombin'
We were a pain in his partys ass 
And Woody, well, he was really tense

We stood at the fence, signs up in the air 
The crowd abuse and insults, spit everywhere
Our silent protest lasted days into weeks
Our journey, simply stated, not for the meek

They put us all in a wagon
Police called our bluff
They came to arrest us
Put us all in cuffs
Politicians announced
("Their Cause Is Violent!")
Wilson Announced
("They're starting a riot!")

Shipped off to jail refusing any bail
For a while we thought, we had terribly failed
But to Woody's dismay 
Papers printed our story
Claims of riot uplifted our glory

Women of America tell you
America is not a democracy
We women of America tell you
We don't work for the aristocracy
We women of America tell you
We won't be denied our right to vote
We women of America tell you
Women of America tell you

("Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Inez Mulholland, and Carrie Chapman Catt were arrested for blocking traffic.  Refusing to pay their fines or accept bail, all were imprisoned in the Washington, DC Jail.  Considering themselves political prisoners, Paul began hunger strikes; their tactics were met with the brutality of feeding tubes forced down their throats. Paul was considered the ringleader and was removed and held separately back in DC.  Alice Paul was later brought to a psychiatric ward in DC where an attempt was made to declare her insane.")

We women of America tell you
America is not a democracy
We women of America tell you
We don't work for the aristocracy
We women of America tell you
We won't be denied our right to vote
We women of America tell you
Women of America tell you

("Are they capable of bearing the sanctions that will be placed upon them?")

We are now in the present, a new century
Where Congress recites a directory
At the height of amoral, political delusion
Voting rights divided, still an illusion
Believe your eyes, what the future holds
Watch your voting rights unravel at the polls
Past is prologue as history repeats
Hold on to your seats, 'cause I'm about to preach
 
Get on the bus (Women of America tell you)
Get on the bus (Women of America tell you)
Get on the bus (Women of America tell you)
Get on the bus (Women of America tell you)

("Thirteenth Amendment!")
("Emancipation Proclamation!") 
("Abolition of Slavery!")
("Fourteen Amendment!") 
("Ratified, life, liberty & freedom!")  
("Fifteenth Amendment!") 
("Black men get the right to vote!") 

("A citizens right to vote shall not be denied or abridged in the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.") 
 ("Still talking about only men voting!")
 ("In 1890 Mississippi's political Congressman quotes!")
 ("We create a poll tax to insure poor blacks cannot vote. If that doesn't do it a literacy test will surely deter.  But incase they press on, we create...")

Minor offenses put black men in jail
Loitering!  We know they can't afford the bail
Laws go on for decades, foundation to be laid
Threatened at the polls, watch their voting rights fade
But the icing on the cake, if they break the law, 
It's forever on their record, bad luck of the draw

Confederates were forced to accept their fate
They refused and found ways to segregate
One vote in congress is all it took
Reconstruction for blacks, gone, forsook
So begins a hundred years of Jim Crow 
Dr. Kings's vision helps our forces grow

Hollywood enforces with Birth of a Nation 
Empowering the Klan's fenzied celebration
Colored Only- signs on all the eye can scan
Violence, bloodshed and the Ku Klux Klan
 
Get on the bus
(Women of America tell you-Vote)
Get on the bus
(Women of America tell you-Vote)
Get on the bus
(Women of America tell you-Vote)
("1920, The Nineteenth Amendment!")

White women can vote, thanks to Alice Paul
Black women still wait, standing proud and tall
Politicians can finally recognize our plight
We can make change, turning wrong into right

Get on the bus (Women of America tell you- Vote)
Get on the bus (Women of America tell you-Vote)
Get on the bus (Women of America tell you-Vote)
Get on the bus (Women of America tell you-Vote)
Get on the bus (Women of America tell you-Vote)
Get on the bus (Women of America tell you-Vote)
Get on the bus (Women of America tell you-Vote)
Get on the bus (Women of America tell you-Vote)

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