by Nick Perrin 

7 to 13 yrs  -  KS2, KS3  -  unison   (1m 36s)

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Download includes  –  Piano-vocal score, lyric sheet, mp3 demo & backing tracks

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Theme  –  Suffragettes, history, women's rights, democracy, elections, voting

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Content  –  A catchy song with an appropriately 1920s-style arrangement, 'Votes For Women' is a great support for teaching about this period in history.  It dramatises the suffragettes’ campaign for women’s right to vote, using contrasting voices and protest chants. 

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Lyrics Sample  

Suffragettes

We have your newspaper headline,

Please make a note.

Women fight for equal rights.

We want to vote!

We have your newspaper headline

In black and white.

Women want to vote like men –

It is our right.

Suffragettes   Votes for women!

Men                 Know your place!

Suffragettes   Give us the vote!

Men                 You’re a disgrace!

Men

Women should never have the vote,

This they should understand.

We say they should know their place.

This protesting should be banned...

...

Suffragettes

Well, you can put us in prison,

Send us to jail.

Suffragettes keep marching on:

We shall prevail.

We have your newspaper headline

Please make a note.

Women fight for equal rights (x3)

Give us the vote!

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This song features in 'The Keymaster', a brilliant 'modular' musical for children, in which they are taken on an entertaining journey through time, visiting key periods in British history.