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FIGHT on SISTERS ...AND OTHER SONGS for LIBERATION M by CAROL HANISCH $2.00 FIGHT ON SISTERS ...AND OTHER SONGS FOR LIBERATION m BY CAROL HANISCH ^ "^A IfiC m FRflH LUU 7? Dedicated to the brave and determined women of the Women's Liberation Movement who give expression and life to the deepest feelings, desires and hopes of women everywhere. And to the radical songwriters and singers who have inspired and taught the world—especially the women, who have had to fight for the right to do it. Contents INTRODUCTION 3 FIGHT ON SISTERS 4 This iongbook came about with help and/on. encouragement ^nom Enjxnces COKXOII, Ruth Leo$£, MATCH MY THUNDER 6 Vedi Matga/iet, MaA.gan.et McVoy, Nelson Meyen., Eleanor. Penny, BEDROOM BACKLASH 8 John Penny, Irene Pesllklt,, Tom Siblo, Bob Weil. WE WANT IT ALL 10 And especially Sit, Cunningham, Anne T-onen and Barbara Leon. I GOTTA LEARN TO SING 12 With special appn.ecJjxtA.on ^on YOU BETTER STOP BLAMING WOMEN 14 The Almanac!,, the Black Civil Rights Movement, Sis Cunningham, SISTERS OF THE SUN 16 Woody Gutknie, Peter LaFarge, Matty McCaslin, Von Mclean, Phil Ocht>, Tom Paxton, Malvina NOT WITH MY LIFE YOU DON'T 17 Reynolds, Peggy Seegen, Pete. Seegen, The Weavers and SONG OF THE OPPRESSED 18 countlest, others who&e music helped me faind my t>ong. WE'LL FIND THE WAY 20 front coven, design and artwork YOU REACHED ME 2 2 by Than Luck WHAT WE OWE THE WORLD 2 4 Photot, on pages 13 and 28 by Eve. Leo^ AFTERWORD 2 6 Copyright © 1978 by Carol Hanisch All rights reserved, including public performance for profit. Any arrangement or adaptation of the compositions in this book without the consent of the owner is an infringement of copyright. Cover artwork © 1978 by Fran Luck Photos on pages 13 and 28 © 1978 by Eve Leoff Printed September 1978 by Franklin printing, New Paltz, flew York introduction You have just opened one of the most thought provoking little songbooks to come out in a long time. Radical? You bet! And right on target. These songs were unmis­ takably written by one who lives by the principle of the commitment of the artist— in this case, commitment to the Women's Liberation Movement. Songs are, and have been for several centuries, right out there in front. Go back through history (socio-economic) and you will find that the singing movements were the ones which brought about notable social changes: reforms, revolutions—at any rate, some sort of improvement in the human condition. Here is a songbook put together by a woman, all songs written by a woman, mostly about the situation women face in a world dominated by men. We need a songbook like this one; we need a whole crop of them springing up everywhere. But sadly there aren't many; I haven't seen many. There's nothing obscure about the lyrics of these songs. Carol Hanisch writes— and sings—very plainly what she means, and there's no fuzzing up of the issues, the main one being that women have got to get together and throw off the deep fears of doing something (or leaving something undone), saying something, (or leaving something unsaid) which might offend or upset the man who's been kind of running her life. Or the men: husband or boy friend, boss, foreman, head of the union, the fellow who manages the corner supermarket, crew leader, director, or whatever. These relationships are what Carol deals with in nearly all of these songs: the basic, often subtle, always complex, day-to-day gut level relationships which dam up a woman's creative outlets. And yet in none of these songs do we find the suggestion that women's oppression is a hopeless condition or the escape into fantasies of women separating from men in a permanent way. The fight is to change men's attitudes and actions—to remove their unjust power over women—so that a genuine unity of the sexes is possible. The writer of these songs recognizes the need for this unity, not only in the man-woman relationship—as beautifully expressed in "Match My Thunder" and humor­ ously dramatized in the very catchy "Bedroom Backlash"—but also in the broader aspect of class struggle. The capitalist class, to maintain itself in power, must of necessity keep us all in subjection—men, women, all races, all colors; hence all must work together to exterminate once and for all that numerically small anti-human ruling clique. In this sense the songs "What We Owe the World", "We'll Find the Way" and "Song of the Oppressed" are right in there and much to the point. When you listen to Carol sing her songs, she makes you say to yourself, "Hey, that's the way it is; I never could put my finger on it before, but there it is!" And you'll want to sing that song which has pointed out something to you—pass it on to others. These are songs to be teamed and sung, not left on the pages of a book. And don't sing them just to groups of women; try them on the guys. You might hear some man say (he'll probably whisper it), "Hey, I never thought of it quite that way before." -. ^>-<^o [Sit, Cunningham it, hounding, zditon o& the national topical! iong quanteAly BROADSWE. A contempoiatiy 0(j Woody GuthtUz, the Mat, a mcmfaci o& the Almanac Singext, and Oklahoma't, Red Vut>t PlayeJU, at, mil at, a ladical activist and onganizex o& iuch gnoupt, at, the Unemployed Council and the Southern Tenant T-atwetu, Union. She necently neleated a BROADSIDE album entitled SUHDOWN.) FIGHT ON SISTERS There has been a definite lack of women's liberation songs from the WLM. Most "women's songs" arc cither lesbian-feminist (women loving women) or socialist-feminist (women fighting for socialism). It was this lack more than anything else that prompted me to start writing songs. I needed them in my life and I suspected other women did too. This was the first. I put it to a favorite folk tune because I wanted women to be able to sing it easily and because I was convinced I couldn't write a melody. Words: By Carol Hanisch. (t) Copyright 1978 by Carol Hanisch Tune: Based on "Roll On Columbia" by Woody Guthrie which was based on "Goodnight, Irene" by Huddie Ledbetter & John Loma* Ml, **>.>.' D ft1 -y' * ch ,—-*- H—|—r- H ij> T J J _f_J_^ -^^.I-.-^!^ ^J- UWA V»*. Sfei-f»^ **.'* v»v*oe. »»£.«* \)ou\ feK yc&ri a. -<y> , yw.«.t\ la.u«^.aj av J 6 *_^ 1 f—, 1—| , 1 r— U j J J -^•l-.-i-^-.-T. -*- • 4 o said «.c+/7 »u>y u»o*^ youJ j l»*V wt T4i5«A t*p oar 0oVCe.S *v\A wt VtJt- '«.*. /C<oa> CKoras *• J cU-J-L^ j: :J _±QT±j= i F'3h-i- on- si*krs; A'^A/- o/ r/34/- OK i^k.»-sy ft^vv &• J JJ o aii-La on. ffyff OH Sisters /isJkf c«. (9M»- pou»ar vo"»U or»«> ^ou" drew** VjiU W- P^#^ 5 U>ow i^ wt fl^ on Sinter*, ^^ *n# Reprinted from MEETING GROUND, #4, March 1978. When we started this movement 'bout ten years ago Men laughed and said that it never would grow But we raised up our voices and we let'em know Fight on sisters, fight on. CHORUS: Fight on sisters, fight on Fight on sisters, fight on Our power will grow and our dreams will be won If we fight on sisters, fight on. Our foremothers visions would not let them rest They fought for their freedom from the east to the west They won some hard battles; we must win the rest So fight on sisters, fight on. Telling the truth about sex, love and men We examined our lives and again and again It was male supremacy we found we must end So fight on sisters, fight on. The bosses claim women just aren't qualified To work at the good jobs for which we applied But we talked to each other and found out they lied Fight on sisters, fight on. The Miss America Pageant we did protest The curlers, the girdles, high heels and the rest That torture a woman — our real self is best Fight on sisters, fight on. We disrupted a hearing on abortion reform Telling the panel — 14 men and a nun That WE are the experts; our bodies our own We fight on sisters, fight on. We know as we knew we must do it alone The war for our freedom can never be won Unless we grasp hold and make it our own Fight on sisters, fight on. We've made some mistakes now and don't get it wrong The forces against us are wily and strong But we're gettin' smarter as we go along And fight on sisters, fight on. Now some say the problem is all in our head While others proclaim that our movement is dead But we'll rise up again, our anger still red And we'll fight on sisters, fight on. MATCH MY THUNDER (THE RADICAL WOMAN'S LAMENT) When I first read that women in China said they choose their husbands on the basis of their politics, I thought, "How unromantic'. What about love?" But then I got to realizing that we, too, often TRY to choose men on that basis—that a man's good politics (to the extent that he has any) is often why we fall in love with him in the first place.
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