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ODE IN BEHALF OF WIMMENS RIGHTS, by                    
First Line: The men are real obstropolus
Last Line: That every kind of thing has riz.
Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism


The men are real obstropolus,
They wont mind their own biz-
Iness, and that's the reason why
That tea and lasses both has riz:
And every thing that we do eat,
And every thing that we do wear,
Have got to be so awful high—
What shall we do, I do declare!

Molasses once was four and six;
But now two dollars we must give;
And liquor, too, is such a price
That tavern-keepers scarce can live;
And when last Sunday I'se at church,
I heard Parson Jenkins in his
Sermon say, that flour and corn,
And every kind of thing has riz.

Now don't you see the reason is
The men are so obstropolus—
They will not let the wimmen vote,
And things is growing worse and worse.
Now, we must rise and let'em know
What our rights be: and then, I guess,
That all kinds of West Ingee goods
In prices will grow less and less!

Now we have all met here to-night—
Sisters Lawrence, Snarl and I,
And Mr. Vilderblows, and all
The rest of us—to see and try
To lay some plan to ease our lot
And make things cheap, and make a law,
Whereby all fighting shall be stopped,
And never have another war.

Now every woman that does live
In any part of Greensboro,'
Must rise on next town meeting day,
And to the ballot-box must go:
And then must vote—and then, I guess,
Once more will have a good, brisk biz-
Iness, and shall no longer hear,
That every kind of thing has riz.





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