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Munitionette

from Cop This - THE ALBUM! by Cosmo

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The world had been at war nigh on a year in 1915
When a cry went out to women ‘cross the land
Shells were needed down the front so come on down on down the factories
The men are fighting but you’re all to hand
Unmarried working girls and women hunkered down together
A million strong, a tale you won’t forget
Blood and tears and guts and bitter glory in the story
Of those that they all called munitionettes

Leave your skirts behind and get yourself into this uniform
No time for all those ladylike things now
Cordite and TNT and bullets, hazards lurked around
But to the danger zone they just went anyhow
In Silvertown, in Barnbow in Swansea were explosions
So many suffered loss of life and limb
And TNT would turn you yellow they called them canary girls
But gin could always stop you feeling grim

There were nIghts round the piano and labour with the navvies
Who taught them how to work a football field
Across the land footie teams of women were assembled
Come on boys, it's really time to yield.
Can you believe that Bella Raeh once scored a double hat trick
The crowd for one game, 20,000 strong?
That’s how it rolls when you’re told there are some things that you’ll never do
When really you could boss ‘em all along?

The war was nearly done when Winston Churchill told the women
The terms for British industry were sealed
Work for less than men he said on top of that injustice
The FA banned them from banned them from their heir football fields
The working class among them didn’t even get a look in
When women’s right to vote in law was set
But if you look at history you’ll see the arc of victory
When Helen Ward sticks it in the net

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from Cop This - THE ALBUM!, released November 12, 2022

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Cosmo Cardiff, UK

".. a folksinger for our times with a veritable hive of bees in his bonnet..." Rob Adams, Edinburgh Fringe Review.

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