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Original Songs by Gerri Gribi ||| Traditional Songs
Hills of Kentucky Gerri Gribi, © 1982 BMI All Rights Reserved (Change of Pace Cassette, Womansong Cassette/LP, Womansong Collection CD) Listen!
The Hunting Song: Animals Love Vegetarians Gerri Gribi © 1984 BMI All Rights Reserved (Womansong
Cassette/LP, Womansong Collection CD)
Lament for a Soldier Gerri Gribi © 1980 BMI All Rights Reserved (Womansong
Cassette/LP, Womansong Collection CD)
Prince Charming Doesn't Live Here Gerri Gribi © 1986 BMI All Rights Reserved (Prince
Charming Doesn't Live Here Cassette, Womansong Collection CD)
I wrote this for the award-winning video documentary
"Poverty Shock: Anywoman's Story" produced by Northeast Wisconsin
Instructional Television (NEWIST) in Green Bay. The content of the video
was guided by an advisory committee of women who had been on welfare, and
had worked very hard to get off. In discussions
with these women, one shattered myth which consistently arose was that of
the "Prince Charming:," the person who would magically whisk them
away and make their lives perfect. I am indebted to those women for their
candor and spirit, which I hope I've captured here.
Share Your Gift Gerri Gribi, © 1994 BMI All Rights Reserved. (Home for Christmas Cassette/CD) Listen!
Sing Farewell Gerri Gribi, © 1986 BMI All Rights Reserved. (Prince
Charming Doesn't Live Here Cassette, It's a Dog's Life Cassette)
We Say No Gerri Gribi, © 1986 BMI All Rights Reserved. (Prince
Charming Doesn't Live Here Cassette)
I wrote this song in 1985 after a local woman was murdered by her consistently abusive husband, shortly before our annual "Take Back the Night" rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin. As neighbors reacted to the tragedy, I was struck by how many dismissed the violence with comments like "Well yeah, we knew he beat her up sometimes but we didn't think he'd kill her." Oops...I neglected to include this in the digital Gerri Gribi Songbook! To download, Right-Click or Control-Click on the song title until a dialog box appears, then choose something like "Save Target As" or "Download Link to Disk." Download it here free.
We Will Not Stop, We Will Not Go Away Gerri Gribi, © 1983 BMI All Rights Reserved (Womansong Cassette/LP,
Womansong Collection CD)
These words echo a speech made by NOW president
Judy Goldsmith in 1983, the day that the newly introduced Equal Rights Amendment
was defeated in Congress. (The first Equal Rights Amendment was introduced
in 1920, shortly after women gained suffrage.) She
reminded her audience that it had taken 72 years for women to win the right
to vote, and declared, "We will not stop, and we will not go away."
The Wings of a Song Gerri Gribi © 1996 BMI All rights reserved (Womansong Collection CD)
The Best of Friends Gerri Gribi, © 1984 BMI All Rights Reserved. (The
Best of Friends Cassette)
Blue and Pink Gerri Gribi, © 1988 BMI All Rights Reserved. (It's
a Dog's Life Cassette)
Traditional Songs
The Crafty Maid's Policy
(Public Domain) (Prince
Charming Doesn't Live Here Cassette, Womansong Collection CD)
This song, found in a London broadside dating
back to 1860, is one of many in the "trickster" genre. Folklorist
Robert Rodriguez first suggested to me that the song was probably a response
to the type of ballad in which the carefree lords ride over the hill and
"frolic" with a defenseless servant. Our Crafty Maid is far from
defenseless, however; she outwits a potential assailant with a bawdy double
entendre, and steals his horse in the bargain. I found this song in All
Our Lives: A Women's Songbook.
The Cruel Youth (Public
Domain) (Womansong Cassette/LP, Womansong Collection
CD)
Folk historian Alan Lomax estimates that over
half of the ballads created by white singers in America were murder ballads.
Like many modern books and movies, the victims are frequently young women,
portrayed as defenseless, dim, and almost eager, victims. This ballad is
unusual in that the woman single-handedly triumphs over her assailant, feels
no remorse about having defended herself...and delivers a classic parting
shot! This version of the song is found in
The Liberated Woman's Songbook. It is the Americanized
version of a British song, "The Outlandish Knight" which is Child
Ballad #4.
Equinoxial and Phoebe (Public
Domain) (Womansong Cassette/LP, Womansong Collection
CD)
People often wax nostalgic for the good-old
days "before women had to work." I've yet to figure out when that
time was! Women have always worked...their work has been undervalued and
underpaid, but they have always worked. Songs
such as the well-known "Housewife's Lament" serve as oral diaries,
and detail the never-ending work day of the pioneer woman. I like this particular
song because the "lament" takes a positive form; no doubt this
song survived because it also provided a humorous lift, a pat on the back
for the weary and overworked housewife. And it's always timely: on a 2005
episode of "Dr. Phil" a husband similarly swapped roles with his
wife after complaining that she was "lazy and disorganized." With
similar results!
Hushabye (All the Pretty Horses) (Public Domain) (Prince Charming
Doesn't Live Here Cassette, Womansong Collection CD)
This lullaby has been in the oral tradition
throughout the South ever since slavery. Sung by slave nurses tending white
children, it protests their being forcibly separated from their own children,
the "poor little lamby" of the second verse. It was a strong statement
against a prevailing myth of that period...that blacks were content with
their lot and better off than they'd been in Africa.
I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier
(Public Domain. 1915 Lyrics: Alfred Bryan.
Tune: Al Piantadosi) (Prince Charming Doesn't
Live Here Cassette, Womansong Collection CD
This was one of the most popular songs of 1915,
as Americans resisted involvement in a European war. The original sheet
music calls it "a mother's plea for peace." It's
appropriate for in April of 1915, for the first time ever, women of different
nations met at a time of war to express opposition and consider ways of
ending the conflict. The International Congress of Women, or the Hague Congress,
was the offspring of the International Suffrage Alliance, and ultimately
led to the formation of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
in 1919. (WILPF)
Oh Come Angel Band (Words: Jefferson Hascall 1860, Music: William
Bradbury 1862. Public Domain) (Change of Pace Cassette,
It's a Dog's Life Cassette)
Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
(L. May Wheeler, Public Domain) (Womansong Cassette/LP, Womansong Collection CD)
Like any civil rights movement, the Women's
Suffrage Movement used music to rally the "troops." Wheeler set
her words to a popular turn-of-the-century parlor tune; it satirizes some
reasons commonly given for denying women the vote.
When I Was a Fair Maid
(Public Domain) (Womansong
Cassette/LP, Womansong Collection CD)
There are many songs which tell us of women
who served in the military disguised as men. "The Female Drummer,"
"The Handsome Cabin Boy," and "Cruel War" are but a
few. I like this one because, even though we don't know who wrote this song,
the boast in the second verse makes me think it just had to be a woman!
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