Misc Musicals – Suffs - This Girl (Ukulele)

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This girl

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This entitled little-

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Calm down, Carrie

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But this girl, this Alice Paul

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What gall to call me an old fogey

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Since when am I an old fogey?

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She thinks I'm obsolete

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She oughta kiss my feet

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But no, she thinks she knows better

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Don't let her get to your head

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What was I thinking enabling her?

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I should've heeded the doubts I had from the start

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She's undeniably smart

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but so misguided

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I've labored for decades to craft a conservative image for suffrage

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But shе makes us look like a horde of hystеrical harpies

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With smoke blowing out of our ears

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What if she ruins what I have been mounting for years?

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I did not count on this girl

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This girl

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I can't believe I am now viewed as the old guard

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And she as the beacon of change

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Me, the old fogey

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How strange...

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This girl

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Not this girl, raised by a penniless drunk

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Who refused to send her to school

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Not this girl, who paid her own way through college

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Proving she's nobody's fool

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Who worked as the first woman superintendent

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Harassed by her boss, but managed to thrive

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Who married a man for a good reputation

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Then found herself widowed at age twenty-five

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Not this girl who flouted all feminine custom

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By joining the fight for the vote

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Not this girl who followed the lead of the movement

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Hiding her anger beneath her petticoat

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Who rose through the ranks by paying her dues

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And earned her place at the top

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Who transformed and expanded the organization

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And she's yet to stop

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Not this girl you see before you now

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Who stands by each move that she's made

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This old fogey's time has come

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Woman's time has come

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I fought my whole goddamn life

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For respect for my sex

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And I will no longer allow

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This arrogant child to imperil our chance to be free

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Not me