All Our Lives

A Women's Songbook

Plot

Melodies, Chords, Lyrics -- and many photos. Songs include:
Escape from being "the other". Standing behind a man ; Custom made woman blues ; Talking want ad ; Nuclear family blues ; Darling Annie ; No hole in my head ; (No more) beggar's blues ; Free to grow ; Working class woman ; Ramblin' woman ; Fantasy girl ; No deposit, no return ; Song of my mother
"You helped put her there". Don't put her down ; It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels ; I'm gonna be an engineer ; Emily
Women with women. A woman's love ; We don't need the men ; Ode to a gym teacher ; Talking out of the closet blues ; Invocation ; The armpit song ; Unfinished business ; The bloods ; Ballad ; Garden boogie ; Long time friends
Historical role models. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sojourner Truth
Songs for today's activists. Nine to five song ; Ballad of Joan Little ; Still ain't satisfied
Self-defense: physical and cultural. I'm tired of fuckers fucking over me ; Woman in the city ; We might come in a-fighting ; All our lives ; Papa ; Abortion ; Juanita
Traditional love songs. John Riley
Motherhood. The sweetest gift a mother's smile ; What'll I do with this baby-o? ; The beginning
Shrewish women. The farmer's curst wife ; Ballad of Susanna Martin ; In praise of John Magee
Beware young ladies!. Beware, o take care ; She is more to be pitied than censured
Murder ballads. Wind and rain
Songs of choice. I'm going away ; When a woman blue ; Traveling lady ; The house carpenter ; I'll not marry at all ; The wraggle taggle Gypsies
Adventurous women and tricksters. The crafty maid's policy ; The handsome cabin boy ; Tarry trousers
Women and work. Southern cotton mill rhyme ; Hustlin' blues ; Housewife's lament
Women in struggle. I am a union woman ; I hate the company bosses ; Which side are you on? ; Bread and roses ; Let us all speak our minds ; Dreadful memories