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2024 Broadway
Suffs the Musical - This Girl Lyrics
The song is written by Shaina Taub.
CARRIE:
This girl
This entitled little
Calm down, Carrie
But this girl, this Alice Paul
What gall to call me an old fogey
Since when am I an old fogey?
She thinks I'm obsolete
She oughta kiss my feet
I lit the way for her
But no, she thinks she knows better
Don't let her get to your head
Focus on your speech instead
What was I thinking enabling her?
I should've heeded the doubts
I had from the start
She's undeniably smart
But so misguided
I've labored for decades
To craft a conservative image for suffrage
But shе makes us look like a horde
Of hystеrical harpies
With smoke blowing out of our ears
What if she ruins
What I have been mounting for years?
I did not count on this girl
This girl
I can't believe
I am now viewed as the old guard
And she as the beacon of change
Me, the old fogey
How strange...
This girl
Not this girl, raised by a penniless drunk
Who refused to send her to school
Not this girl,
Who paid her own way through college
Proving she's nobody's fool
Who worked
As the first woman superintendent
Harassed by her boss,
But managed to thrive
Who married a man for a good reputation
Then found herself widowed at age twenty-five
Not this girl who flouted all feminine custom
By joining the fight for the vote
Not this girl who followed the lead
Of the movement
Hiding her anger beneath her petticoat
Who rose through the ranks
By paying her dues
And earned her place at the top
Who transformed
And expanded the organization
And she's yet to stop
Not this girl you see before you now
Who stands by each move
That she's made
This old fogey's time has come
Woman's time has come
I fought my whole goddamn life
For respect for my sex
And I will no longer allow
This arrogant child
To imperil our chance to be free
Not me
Not this girl
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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