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Suffrage Songs and Verses

Chapter 25: Another Star
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A collection of poems and songs that urge women's political enfranchisement and social reform, blending moral argument, satire, and lyrical reflection. Several pieces reframe motherhood and domestic labor as public responsibilities, converting private care into a reason for civic participation; others mock anti-suffrage rationales and challenge female passivity. The verse alternates earnest exhortation, vivid domestic scenes, and rallying refrains to encourage collective action, education, and self-recognition. Overall it presents suffrage as necessary for family welfare and social progress, urging women to move from seclusion to engaged public life.

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(Suffrage Campaign Song for California)

Tune: “Buy a Broom.”

There are five a-light before us,
In the flag flying o’er us,
There’ll be six on next election—
We bring a new star!
We are coming like the others,
Free Sisters, Free Brothers,
In the pride of our affection
For California.
Chorus: A ballot for the Lady!
For the Home and for the Baby!
Come, vote ye for the Lady,
The Baby, the Home!
Star of Hope and Star of Beauty!
Of Freedom! Of Duty!
Star of childhood’s new protection,
That rises so high!
We will work for it together
In the golden, gay weather,
And we’ll have it next election,
Or we will know why.
Chorus: A ballot for the Lady!
For the Home and for the Baby!
Come, vote ye for the Lady,
The Baby, the Home!