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2024 Broadway
Suffs the Musical - Hold It Together Lyrics
The song is written by Shaina Taub.
MRS. HERNDON: (spoken)
Inmates!
This is my prison mess hall.
You will sit down,
Shut up and eat your food.
ALICE: (spoken)
But matron,
We’re political prisoners
And we refuse / to
MRS. HERNDON: (spoken)
Guards, if one-a these girls says
Another damn word,
Knock her teeth out.
Now, eat your food.
ALICE: (spoken)
Don’t touch the food
LUCY: (spoken)
But - when will we eat?
ALICE: (spoken)
Not til they release us
DORIS: (spoken)
What?
MRS. HERNDON: (spoken)
Quiet! Eat your food
ALICE: (spoken)
Hunger strike!
LUCY: (spoken)
Strike!
MRS. HERNDON: (spoken)
Guards!
MRS. HERNDON ALICE,
RUZA, DORIS, LUCY: (spoken)
Guards, shut them up!
Strike! Strike! Strike! Strike!
Strike! Strike! Strike! Strike!
MRS. HERNDON: (spoken)
You won’t last the night
ALICE:
Hold it together,
See it through
Don’t let despair get the best of you
ALICE, RUZA, DORIS, LUCY:
Push down the pain,
Thicken your skin
Hold it together,
Never give in
CARRIE:
God bless our great republic
God bless our grand old flag
God bless the land
Of freedom we hold dear
Let mother serve
We’re here to help the war
We’ll conserve our food
To feed our soldiers
Even more cuz the kitchen
Is the key to u.S. Victory
So mister,
Won’t you please let mother serve?
(spoken)
We will now take a recess for tea.
MOLLIE: (spoken)
Are you alright?
CARRIE: (spoken)
I just need air, I’m fine, I’m fine.
MOLLIE:
Perhaps the problem’s
With your spine
CARRIE:
Mollie, would you stop it?
If we fall in line about the war,
You’ll see
We’ll get the president
To finally hear our case,
So please drop it
MOLLIE:
But the carrie
I know would never condone
This carnage
CARRIE:
If you don’t like it,
Go join Alice Paul in jail
MOLLIE: (spoken)
Is this about besting Alice Paul
Or winning the vote?
(singing)
Which do you care about more?
What a coward you’ve become
(spoken)
Fight your own war
CARRIE:
Hold it together,
See it through
CARRIE & ALICE:
Don’t let your rage get the best of you
CARRIE, ALICE, LUCY,
DORIS, RUZA, MOLLIE:
Push down the pain,
Thicken your skin
Hold it together,
Never give in
ALICE: (spoken)
Ruza, no! Stay strong for Inez.
RUZA: (spoken)
Get her name out of your mouth.
Was killing her not enough for you?
LUCY: (spoken)
How dare you say that to her.
ALICE: (spoken)
What matters is Inez kept fighting,
Even though she was tired
And sick so we owe it
To her to do the same.
DORIS: (spoken)
Alice, it’s been a week -
I’m losing my mind.
ALICE: (spoken)
Don’t worry,
Wilson will be shamed into a pardon
As soon as word gets out
He’s letting women die of starvation.
LUCY: (spoken)
How comforting.
RUZA: (spoken)
From the moment we met,
You’ve promised me
We would burn him down.
ALICE: (spoken)
We will, we -
RUZA: (spoken)
But it is five years later,
He is still in power,
Our friend is dead
And now we are dying in prison.
LUCY: (spoken)
Let’s all just -
RUZA: (spoken)
Why do you still follow her?
DORIS: (spoken)
I don’t know what else to do!
LUCY: (spoken)
She’s my best friend.
ALICE, LUCY, RUZA, DORIS:
Why are you fighting me?
I am not the enemy
MRS. HERNDON: (spoken)
That’s enough!
Guards, take ‘em away!
‘Cept you, stay put -
Your husband is here
DORIS: (spoken)
Husband?
DUDLEY
Good god, what have they done
To you, miss stevens?
(spoken)
I mean - Mrs. Malone.
DORIS: (spoken)
Hello... darling.
DUDLEY:
I am here on behalf
Of the chief of police
The president has ordered
My wife’s immediate release
MRS. HERNDON: (spoken)
She’s all yours, sir.
(singings)
See if you can beat some sense into her.
DORIS:
Congratulations on your new job
DUDLEY: (spoken)
What?
DORIS: (spoken)
You’re a suff now.
Let’s get moving.
DUDLEY: (spoken)
Yes sir- ma’am - Yes I am
ALICE, LUCY, RUZA, CARRIE,
MOLLIE, IDA, MARY:
Hold it together,
See it through don’t
Let the bastards intimidate
You push down the pain,
Thicken your skin
ALICE:
Hold it together
CARRIE:
Hold it together
ALICE, LUCY, RUZA, CARRIE,
MOLLIE, IDA, MARY:
Hold it together
IDA:
Never give in
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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