2018: 100 hundred
years on from (some) women in Britain, (so, including Irish women, at the
time) getting the right to vote.
I Am a Suffragette
(M. Olive Drennen, C
Hanford, 1912)
I met a little
country girl, eighteen years old, she said
Her eyes were black,
her hair was jet, and she sadly to me said,
Chorus: "Yes, Papa votes,but Mama can't, Oh, no, not yet not yet
No matter what the
others think, I am a suffragette.''
Oh, all the men make
all the laws, which makes the women fret,
But wait and see
those laws when we at last our suffrage get.
I have a dandy little
beau, he lives down in the town,
And when he asks me
to "be his," I'll look at him and frown.
Last Chorus
"Yes, Papa votes, but Mama can't,
Oh, no, not yet, not yet.
And I'll not marry any man, 'til I my
suffrage get."
From Here's to the
Women, Wenner and Frielicher
