Living in politically sensitive times

I was thinking about the song Mama won’t allow no banjo picking round here and I thought what about what papa won’t allow, thinking of papa trump, papa putin, papa turnbull and then I thought “actually I would prefer not to think about them and their androcratic behaviour.”

So I got to thinking of the song again and how I am a mama and I believe there are more important things not to allow. I encourage banjo and guitar picking.  Music is good for you

I decided to play the song and as I was singing this other song emerged, We won’t fade away, no we won't.   This song evolved out of remembering Pat Humphries’ Keep on walking Forward.  

After a couple of days playing with the songs, I found the final arrangement.

So here’s what this mama and feminist won’t allow.

Mama won’t allow no racism round here

Mama won’t allow no racism round here

Mama won’t allow no racism, get your head out of that schism

Mama won’t allow no racism round here

We won’t fade away no we won’t

We won’t fade away no we won’t

We won’t fade away, we’ve fought for our rights and we’ll have our say

We won’t fade away no we won’t

Mama won’t allow no misogyny round here

Mama won’t allow no misogyny round here

Mama won’t allow no misogyny, hating women seems strange to me

Mama won’t allow no misogyny round here

We won’t lose our voices no we won’t

We won’t lose our voices no we won’t

We won’t lose our voices about women’s right to make their own choices

We won’t lose our voices no we won’t

Mama won’t allow no domestic violence round here

Mama won’t allow no domestic violence round here

Mama won’t allow no domestic violence, and she encourages women to break their silence

Mama won’t allow no domestic violence round here

We won’t be silenced no we won’t

We won’t be silenced no we won’t

We won’t be silenced about wanting a world that’s free of violence

We won’t be silenced no we won’t.

Mama won’t allow no child abuse round here

Mama won’t allow no child abuse around here

Mama won’t allow no child abuse, we all know there is no excuse

Mama won’t allow no child abuse round here

We won’t fade away no we won’t

We won’t fade away no we won’t

We won’t fade away, we’ve been here from the start and we’re here to stay

We won’t fade away no we won’t

For those musicians among you, its in the key of G.  I'm hoping to make a recording to put on Soundcloud soon and it would be great if other feminist musicians would add their instruments and voices.