It's a Hoe Down

Women!
Come along, if you’d like to seek salvation
Be a wife in the extremist right
Putting in an appearance as a Stepford wife
Maintaining status quo for the clergy’s life
It’s a hoe down. It’s a hoe down
The Brotherhood’s Code... a showground
Sexism rife
Gotta get ready. Gotta get ready, for Fundamentalist life
Gotta get ambition cut... right out of you
Thrust submission... right back into you
No more resistance
No debate
The Brotherhood’s in charge, so you don’t rate
Now gag them all, you clergy’s wives
Get non conformists, out of your lives
Wives, move together, and form a block
That’s, equal and different, and not like that lot
Gays to the left of us
Feminists to the right
Clergy wives, you’re shining bright
Straight up the middle, and turn around
Face your Bible, leather and bound
Sift right through with a fine tooth comb
For all the verses that will keep you at home
It’s a hoe down. It’s a hoe down
The Brotherhood’s Code... a showground

Discrimination rife
Gotta get ready. Gotta get ready for Fundamentalist life
Gotta get ambition cut... right out of you
Thrust submission right...back into you
No more resistance
No debate
The Brotherhood’s in charge, so you don’t rate
Now girls... you can start this Friday night
Invite your friends to join the Fundamentalist right
Pull across the drapes and show
The Women’s Weeklys... that have to go
Home made movies, letters , books
Give your pin up, one last look
When the bonfire, finally hits
Read out all the Bible bits
Sift right through with a fine tooth comb
For all the verses, that will keep you at home
It’s a hoe down. It’s a hoe down
The Brotherhood’s Code... a showground
Nepotism rife
Gotta get ready. Gotta get ready for Fundamentalist life
Gotta get ambition cut... right out of you
Thrust submission right... back into you
No more resistance
No debate
The Brotherhood’s in charge so you don’t rate
Girls, step right up, and hear the call
These clergy wives, will save you all
No gender bending, equality

Bias maintained, by the Standing Committee
Use the Synod, as a tool
To pay lip service, to democratic rule
Power to the heterosexual male
But friends and relos... you can’t fail
Because, all the boys, in the Brotherhood league
Will keep status quo, with smoke and mirror, intrigue
It’s a hoe down. It’s a hoe down
The Brotherhood’s Code... a showground
Prejudice rife
Gotta get ready. Gotta get ready for Fundamentalist life
Gotta get ambition cut... right out of you
Thrust submission right... back into you
No more resistance
No debate
The Brotherhood’s in charge ...so you don’t rate
No more resistance
No debate
The Brotherhood’s in charge...so you don’t rate

By Agnes Hart from The Rorschach Collective