Jeannette Rankin

from A Century Ago by Darth Nater

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This is a song for Jeannette Rankin
This first US congresswoman
She jumped a train without a clue where it would end
And my story starts on the day she left the station

Remote farmyards, street corners, church potluck suppers
Unventilated one-room schoolhouses in on the summit of summer
They were few yet devout, they came out armed and ready
Not with guns or swords but with impassioned support
Hands as calloused as their stances
Home spun dresses peppered with prairie dust
Mud studded and sweaty

She spoke to them and she listened
But she listened more than she spoke
She had one mouth and two ears she used to hear their fears and hopes

This one's for you Jeannette Rankin
This first US congresswoman
This one's for you Jeannette Rankin
This first US congresswoman

We do the same work
We till the same fields
We built the kitchens in which we cook their meals
We bale the same hay
We dig the same holes
What do we have to show?
We put the suffer in suffrage
I know it’s not fair
But I'm going down to Washington
Won't you follow me there?

There's no telling the plateaus you can climb to when the real housewives of rural Montana are behind you
There's no telling the plateaus you can climb to when the real housewives of rural Montana are behind you

This is a song for Jeannette Rankin
I don't care if you're a man or woman
A venomous feminist or chauvinist pig
It took a lot of courage to do what Jeannette Rankin did

This is a song for Jeannette Rankin
I don't care if you're a Democrat or Republican
A gelatinous pacifist or sadistic villain
It took a lot of courage to do what Jeannette Rankin did

Opposed an otherwise unanimous decision
She couldn’t have had a more unpopular opinion
Tasked to speak on behalf of half the population
Never wavered face to face with Woodrow Wilson's declaration

She waited, patient, for her name to be called
Stood tall and resigned like a lightning rod on a golf course
As it’s starting to downpour

I wish to stand for my country but I cannot vote for war
No, I cannot vote for war
The war to end all war
What do you take me for?

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from A Century Ago, released March 31, 2018

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Funny songs. Sad songs. Funny, sad songs.

Darth Nater is the solo project of Buffalo-based musician Nate Noworyta.

Lyrically dense story-songs filled with detailed imagery and characters. Musically rooted in folk and indie rock.
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