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2024 Broadway
Suffs the Musical - She and I Lyrics
The song is written by Shaina Taub.
CARRIE:
Miss Paul
ALICE:
Mrs. Catt
CARRIE:
It's been a while
ALICE:
Four years
CARRIE & ALICE:
I could just die after all this time
She and I in the same state
With nothing left to do but wait
CARRIE:
This is the dress
I've been planning to wear if we win
ALICE:
And plan to put it on before results are in
Bold
CARRIE:
I only took it out to iron it
So it appears you mean to burn
That old suffragist flag if we lose?
ALICE:
No, we sew a new star on this flag
For each state we beat
Tennessee would make it complete
CARRIE:
And you've already sewn it on, I bet
ALICE: (spoken)
Not yet
CARRIE & ALICE:
Should I curse or cry after all this time?
She and I in the same state
With nothing left to do but wait
CARRIE:
I hope you realize if we lose
It will be due to the backing you cost us
By picketing the President during the war
ALICE:
I hope you realize if we win
It will be despite the power you lost us
By bowing to the President during the war
CARRIE:
I made allies
ALICE:
I took action
CARRIE:
Who cares who gets the credit or the blame?
What matters is the work gets done
ALICE:
Says the woman who has started
Writing suffrage memoirs
When we haven't even won
CARRIE & ALICE:
No, no, no
She hasn't changed
She hasn't changed at all
She'll never know
Should I just go?
ALICE:
I know you think I'm this arrogant kid
But I've just always known it's my calling
To see this movement through
And I can't stop moving 'til I do
CARRIE:
This girl
Carrie, you were this girl
When you first arrived
As a fiery young leader-to-be
Raging at elders and raring to go
Then when Susan said you were off track
You played by her rules
As you have ever since
But Alice never held back
So isn't it wild?
After all this time
I feel like a parent made
To reprimand my child
But who is rather pleased to have her do
What I always wanted to
Rebel daughter and careful mother
Maybe she and I always needed each other
CARRIE: (spoken)
Alice
I...
I…
ALICE: (spoken)
What?
CARRIE: (spoken)
I’ll see you down at the State House then
Review: Suffs the Musical Lyrics
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
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