This song is for my friends who have had to leave this town due to violence they faced as queer women, and for those who choose to stay and resist it everyday. I included this Cindy Crabb quote cause I thought it made a nice to-do list for me and my male privelidge.
"What would have happened if I'd had a choice, when I was a girl who did not want to be one? If I could have just as easily become a boy, would I have done this work? Would I have accepted and cultivated the masculine in me and continued to belittle the rest? Would I have been committed to radical feminist politics? Would I have been working to blow apart a world that has kept us all in boxes? If I had been able to become a boy, would I have struggled to really understand myself and this world, or would I have been able to just relax with my privilege and finally forget about it?"
Gender Part One by Cindy Crabb (from the Encyclopedia of Doris)
lyrics
KEY: D
2/4
INTRO:
Bm(7)
VERSE 1
D
Oh when I heard
A D A G
Those lone-ly words
F#m
Spill out from your mouth
Bm*
I stood up like a scarecrow
F#m Em
With straw bursting out from the seams
F#m Em A
Just walking a friend through the scene
VERSE 2:
The heat and the sweat
Were rallying around your neck
We carried the weight to the exit
And walked with it out in the street
Walked with it out in the street
CHORUS:
Em
Where you singled out one brick
A
And punched it
Em
You singled out his face
A Em*(pause 4) Bm(7)
And cut it up
VERSE 3:
His heart was bruised
His callous brain must get confused
He thinks he owns half of this town here
And says we out to have the blues
He says, "If I've got the blues
You've got the blues"
VERSE 4:
Oh hissing goose
When she attacks, she'll let it rain on you
She'll break both your legs
With her wingspan
And tell all her friends of the news
And tell all her friends of the news
Banjo-wielding indie folk outfit drop their fourth full-length studio album of broody ballads and barroom stompers. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 13, 2014
Irish singer-songwriter Sarah E. Cullen bares her heart over pastoral folk arrangements enshrouded in a dream-pop haze. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 29, 2021