Suffs - A Letter From Harry’s Mother Lyrics

2024 Broadway
Suffs the Musical - A Letter From Harry’s Mother Lyrics

The song is written by Shaina Taub.

PHOEBE BURN: (spoken)
Dear Harry

(singing)
I've never sent a telegram before
I drove all the way to town in a downpour
So I sure hope this reaches
You in time for your vote today
I'm real proud you hold that office
And son, there's something I must say

Your father gave his life
In the Great War three years ago
And oh, I'll be kicked out
Of McMinn County for saying so
I hate this President for making him go
And I wish I'd had the right to vote him out
Now I know
I'm just an old farmer's
Widow milking cows in Tennessee
But I read the paper
And I've seen the women marching to be free
They made me think that maybe
I could hop a train to Washington,
D.C. and march too
Only I was home, raising you
So I did my best to teach you what I knew

Now your own little girlie's nearly three
What do you want her future to be?
Vote aye for her, my son
Let your mama know
She raised a good one
And oh, I made that meatloaf you like
So come on home when you're done

SPEAKER: (spoken)
Burn! Burn!
For Christ's sake, Burn!

HARRY BURN: (spoken)
Aye

ALICE: (spoken)
We did it?

PHOEBE BURN:
With lots of love
Mama

Suffs the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Let Mother Vote
Finish the Fight
Find A Way
Wait My Turn
Terrell’s Theme
The March (We Demand Equality)
Great American Bitch
Ladies
Worth It
If We Were Married
The Convention Part 1
This Girl
The Convention Part 2
Alva Belmont
Show Them Who You Are
The Campaign
How Long?
The Young Are At The Gates
Respectfully Yours, Dudley Malone
Hold It Together
Wait My Turn (reprise)
The Report
Show Them Who You Are (reprise)
Insane
Fire & Tea
Let Mother Vote (reprise)
She and I
A Letter From Harry’s Mother
I Was Here
If We Were Married (reprise)
Lucy’s Song
Finish the Fight (reprise)
Keep Marching