Crisis

Gather 'round, girls Let me tell you about the crisis that is here At the end I almost see our final victory I know that we don't all believe that it'll be what it'll be But a crisis 'tis indeed, like a boulder gathering speed 'Cause if we fail to act upon it Might mean the chance has been lost And we will have to wait to win It's 1916, we're talking war and battle cries Oh, women dry your eyes, you gotta rise up and fight You may be troubled and bewildered and stricken with grief But you can solve it, fix these knotty problems, we try to breathe 'Cause if we fail to act upon it Might mean the chance has been lost And we will have to wait to win Oh, America, look up at that north star One day it'll come down The time has come to shout aloud In every city and village and town The woman's hour has struck The woman's hour is now If we fail to act upon it Might mean the chance has been lost There was a man in West Virginia Someone asked him what he thought He said, "We've been keeping women down so long, it would feel so queer to not" If someone asked his wife the same question, here's what she'd say "We've been down so long, we've gotta stay this way" Therein lies the movement of those who say, nay Oh, America, look up The star is getting nearer It's time to shout aloud to everybody who can hear us The woman's hour has struck The woman's hour is now The woman's hour is here