Songs, Anthems, and Music for Women

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Sara Bareilles - King of Anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVvTPisEzCI

India Arie - Beautiful

https://youtu.be/GjNY5HGcopA?si=eyNSmDVrbm0gL9h-

Devon Cole - W.I.T.C.H.

https://youtu.be/-BstMcit8VQ?si=TRKHjpyXOCCq2v_F

Lawrence - “It’s Not All About You”

Two songs about marriage, both by Carly Simon

"That's the Way I Always Heard it Should Be"

You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds
But soon you'll cage me on your shelf
I'll never learn to be just me first
By myself

Well O.K., it's time we moved in together
And raised a family of our own, you and me
Well, that's the way I've always heard it should be,
You want to marry me, we'll marry
https://youtu.be/Ux7HgO9QhAc?si=_FZeJpbKyuUK54pR

"Coming Around Again"

Baby sneezes, Mummy pleases, Daddy breezes in
So good on paper, So romantic, But so bewildering
...
You pay the grocer, You fix the toaster, Kiss the host good-bye
Then you break a window, Burn the soufflé, Scream a lullaby

The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again
https://youtu.be/DR1HNHLsSAQ?si=FJDhkUyA5AafPJjg
Simon wrote this song for the movie "Heartburn," about a mother who leaves her unfaithful husband while pregnant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_SY2vo5jHU

Conchita - El Viaje

This song doesn’t make me cry. It’s just allergies…

Some kids' songs

"The Princess Who Saved Herself" by Jonathan Coulton

There was a castle by a waterfall,
With a pink and purple wall,
And a princess living there.

She had no parents and was all alone,
She got by on her own,
And she liked it pretty well.

'Cause she never wore her socks,
She had a pet snake,
She bought a red guitar,
And she ate a whole cake.
And there wasn't anybody there to tell her what to do,
So she did what she wanted to.
https://youtu.be/T9KvA2eWjwY?si=gkBi24RXiYOLSLOc

"Girl Land" from "Free to be You and Me"

Welcome to Girl Land
My good little girls!
Admission's a wink
And a toss of your curls

Wonderful Girl Land...
The island of joys!
Where good little girls
Pick up after the boys

So, come on in… and look about…
You go in a girl
And you never GET OUT!! HaHa!

They're boardin' up Girl Land
Some say it's too bad
They try to remember some fun that they had
And other folks say it was no fun at all
Bein' a girl in Girl Land
https://youtu.be/HzPCnx8gWmM?si=N-owHzjjAu18ZykN

Telling it like it is…



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD1hnhjxFDQ

Maddie Zahm - Fat Funny Friend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeipWTPCC_8

Alanis Morissette - That I Would Be Good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPTLv9xY800

Alanis Morissette - Forgiven

You know how us Catholic girls can be
Hey, yeah, hey yeah, yeah
We make up for so much time a little too late

I never forgot it, confusing as it was
No fun with no guilt feelings
The sinners, the saviors, the loverless priests
I'll see you next Sunday

We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing or two to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did

I sang Alleluia in the choir
Oh, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
I confessed my darkest deeds to an envious man

My brothers they never went blind for what they did
But I may as well have
In the name of the Father, the Skeptic and the Son
I had one more stupid question…

We all had delusions in our heads
We all had our minds made up for us
We had to believe in something
So we did…

What it's like to be punished for not being beautiful

"Dance Ten, Looks Three" from "A Chorus Line"

I swiped my dance card once after an audition
And on a scale of then they gave me
For dance, ten, for looks, three

Well, dance, ten, looks, three
And I'm still on unemployment
Dancing for my own enjoyment
That ain't it, kid, that ain't it, kid

Dance, ten, looks, three
It's like to die!
Left the theater and called the doctor
For my appointment to buy

Tits and ass
Bought myself a fancy pair
Tightened up the derriere
Did the nose with it, all that goes with it

Tits and ass
Had the bingo-bongos done
Suddenly I'm getting national tours
Tits and ass won't get you jobs unless they're yours

Didn't cost a fortune neither
Didn't hurt my sex life either

Flat and sassy
I would get the strays and losers
Beggars really can't be choosers
That ain't it, kid, that ain't it, kid

Fixed the chassis
How do you do
Life turned into and endless medley
Of 'Gee it had to be you', why?

Tits and ass
Where the cupboard once was bare
Now you knock and someone's there
You have got 'em, hey, top to bottom, hey

It's a gas, just a dash of silicone
Shake your new maracas and you're fine
Tits and ass can change your life
They sure changed mine

Have it all done
Honey, take my word
Grab a cab, c'mon, see the wizard on
Park and Seventy-third

For tits and ass
Orchestra and balcony
What they want is what you see
Keep the best of you, do the rest of you

Pits or class
I have never seen it fail
Debutante or chorus girl or wife
Tits and ass, yes, tits and ass
Have changed my life
https://youtu.be/XWKDLGF6v9o?si=jGIypX299tPAkTbo

"At Seventeen" by Janis Ian

I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired

The valentines I never knew
The Friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth

And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces
Desperately remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone

Who called to say, "Come dance with me"
And murmured vague obscenities
At ugly girls like me
At seventeen

To those of us who knew the pain
Of valentines that never came
And those whose names were never called
When choosing sides for basketball

It was long ago and far away
The world was younger than today
When dreams were all they gave for free
To ugly duckling girls like me
https://youtu.be/KCp-ymJpRP4?si=y2oJ_w5O80DZHueW

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