Daughters

Composed by：Aoife O'Donovan

Arranged by：Tanner Porter/The Westerlies

Produced by：Aoife O’Donovan/Darren Schneider/Eric Jacobsen

Here in the dark

Everything that

Once was becomes a tiny spark

Looking back from the next century

What will they see

The names of the girls

Who laid the stones

Names long forgotten

Never scribbled in the tomes

But they were strong and indestructible

Their hearts were full

Now the edifice of women's liberty

It is almost complete

But protected and serene

The rich women are still

Honing their malevolent skills

Growing bolder in their treachery

Selling for free

There are those

Who are willing to vilify

Their sisters 'cross the land

They declare them too quick to cry

Saying don't trust them

With the privilege

Don't even try

Will we ever be ready for a victory

Or sit and watch the country as it bleeds

The enemies of our

'Cause they try to stop us

But before the vote is won

We can't leave the fight

To the daughters daughters daughters daughters

So we go into the fray shoulders bare

Feel the fire and liberate

Women in schools and counting houses

In shops and on the farm

They're all around us

They got babies crying at their breasts

Sun sinks in the west

The veins of these women are

Not filled with milk and water

These are mothers of bold

American daughters

But they are not afraid

They're lying in wait

Listening for the bugle call

To send them in

Suffrage is the only way to end

The enemies of our

'Cause they try to stop us

But before the vote is won

We can't leave the fighting

To the daughters of our daughters

So we go into the fray

Shoulders bare

Take the punches to our faces

Feel the fire in our bones and liberate

When will we be ready for the victory

When will we be ready for the victory

Will we ever be ready for the victory