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"Rights of Woman" was published in The Philadelphia Minerva on October 17, 1795. The lyrics are "By a Lady" & set to the tune "God Save America", which is also "America (My Country tis of Thee)" & "God Save the Queen" (or King depending on the reigning monarch in Britain). While this song does not specifically reference of suffrage, it calls for the rights of women. & it calls for women to speak up & to revolt much like Abigail Adams warned in 1776. "I long to hear that you have declared an independency -- and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation." -Abigail Adams in a letter to her husband John Adams, March 31, 1776 My favorite part of this song is the reference to Mary Wollstonecraft & her Vindication of the Rights of Women published in 1792 in Verse 8. However, my least favorite part is the unfortunate extra line in Verse 5. It makes the verse particularly awkward to sing.
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