1910
E. Smyth
Suffragists:
Sounds of the battle raging around us,
up and defy them laugh in their faces!
Friendly Men:
How they will knock you about, and yet as you say,
this cause is worth a blow or two
Suffragists:
This cause that we love,
this cause that we serve, is worth a blow or two
Friendly Men, Unfriendly Men:
Sounds of the battle raging. Hi! Stop them if you can,
stop them, stop them, O stop them if you can.
Unfriendly Men:
Stop them, O stop them if you can
Suffragists:
This cause that we love, this cause that we serve,
it shall prevail as prevails the light
Friendly Men, Unfriendly Men:
This cause that we serve, it shall prevail, is prevailing
Friendly Men:
Sounds of the battle raging around us, gently ladies, gently ladies.
Why this violence?
Unfriendly Men:
Sounds of the battle raging around us,
come move on please, come move on
Suffragists:
But the vow!
We vowed to obey, we vowed to obey, honour, love
Anti-Suffragists:
What of the vow to obey!
We vowed to obey, we vowed to obey honour, love
Friendly Men::
You vowed to obey us
Unfriendly Men:
You vowed to obey, you vowed to obey,
I know Mrs Humphrey Ward. You vowed to obey…
All:
This cause that we love,
this cause that we serve, is worth a blow or two
Friendly Men, Unfriendly Men:
Stopping the traffic, stopping the traffic
Suffragists:
Try again, try again, on to the goal!
Friendly Men/ Unfriendly Men:
They are putting back the cause, they are putting it back for years
Suffragists:
Patience, patience
Suffragists:
This cause we love will surely prevail as sure as sun doth rise!
Friendly Men, Unfriendly Men:
I fear they will get it, I fear they will get it
All:
We know we shall get it! We know we shall get it!
Soon or later, surely, surely…
Suffragists:
We know we shall get it…
Men:
They will soon get it…
Suffragists:
The sounds of the battle raging around us, raging, raging, raging, raging…
Unfriendly Men:
Move on, move on, move on…
Suffragists:
We know we shall get it! Sounds of the battle raging around us
Suffragists:
Nelly Bly, shuts her eye when she goes to sleep!
Anti-Suffragists, Friendly Men, Unfriendly Men:
But when she wakened
All:
Then she knew she would get it!
When she wakened then she knew she would get it! …
She has wakened up again and of course she will get it.