SONDRA
No. Unlike Medicare for all this will pass. Look to history to help face the future …
(Sings.)
Lady history’s a little bit grim
Her story’s always weighed out as lesser to His
But give her many pages a skim
You’ll find the definition of courage to live
To fight for rights they outta already give
A laundry list of heroes dismissed and pissed
They gotta bed permission to exist
So they resist!
And that’s your lady history!
Lady history blues, lady history blues
An instigators and rebels Who’s Who
Lady history blues, lady history blues
Take a page from the girls who refuse, we
Ain’t gonna give any one the satisfaction
Of having us miss out on any of the action!
Lady history blues, lady history blues
Us ladies better stay in our lane
At the top of our game and the chain
Don’t let these little Mitches complaints
Drive us from the climb to claim our fair shake
Cuz Susan B please are you kidding me, Mitches be
Slippin if they think we giving in, settling
Gender’s a construct constricting us - ‘Lizabeth
Stanton is standing up, handing out pamphlets:
Declaration of Sentiments - Let us in! Margaret
Sanger’s a target, they hate her for arguing
Our bodies are ours, when we work, we work hard
So raise a stick, Patsy Mink: pay us our dollars up!
They say they’re gonna try to burn or drown
Any of us for standing up / speaking out
And so we SHOUT
Cuz that’s your lady history
Lady history blues, lady history blues
Through the fire we forge something new
Lady history blues, lady history blues
Watch out now cuz we’re making the rules!
They treat us as objects - need to see us as people.
Cuz violence is obvious till they treat us as equals
Lady history blues, lady history blues
COMBO LADY
Oooooh oh oh oh …
SONDRA
You’re here today cuz smart girls stayed in the picture
So break ground like Lovelace, don’t be a hidden figure
Like Gladys West, shape the world, point us where we’re moving
Like Edith Clark, do what they say woman aren’t supposed to be doing
Like Amazing Grace make the change that everyone’s allergic to
Like Mae Jemison go touch the sky and prove that all of us can too!
When people are scared they see a demon in change
When people have power they don’t want it taken away
When people won’t give you a chance than that’s what you take
And that’s your lady history!
Lady history blues, lady history blues
An instigators and rebels Who’s Who
Lady history blues, lady history blues
Take a page from the girls who refuse:
When somebody tells you that it ain’t your place
Crush his Emily Dickenson in and give him a wave!
COMBOLADY
Bye bye!
BOTH
Lady history blues, lady history blues
Lady history blues, lady history blues
Lady history blues, lady history blues
credits
from Our Dumb Universe, Part 2,
released December 28, 2020
Vocals by Lauren Lim Jackson and Hannah Fairchild
