Songs of the Present Time
Melodies of Beauty, Words of Sense,
Ideas of Progress
by
J. P. WEBSTER

FIRST SERIES
All Rights for All.  Song and Chorus
Bessie Jayne.  Song and Chorus
Cupid and Mammon.  Duet
Lost Lomie Laine. Song and Chorus
My Margaret.  Song
Northmen, Awake.  Quartet and Chorus
The Cottage in the Wood.  Song and Chorus
The Past We can Never Recall.  Song and Chorus
The Spring at the Foot of the Hill.  Song and Chorus
Womain is Going to Vote.  Song and Chorus

"Woman is going to Vote" (20 April 1868)
[Song and Chorus]
Words by Luke Collin
Music by J[oseph]. P[hilbrick]. Webster [1819-1875]

Chicago, IL: Root & Cady, 67 Washington Street
Plate No. 790 5
[Source: am1312@Mills]

1. The better day brightly is dawning,
  Dismayed is all error and sin;
All hail to the beautiful morning;
  Millennium ushering in.
Farewell to election corruptions,
  Of which the whole world has ta’en note;
Let ev’ry man mind his own buttons,
  For woman is going to vote.

CHORUS [sung after each VERSE]
She lectures and doctors, and preaches;
  And notes the new cut of a coat;
She’ll mend our political breaches,
  And renovate all with her vote.

2. For ages the lords of creation,
  Have managed things all their own way;
Law makers, executives, judges,
  Their genius has always had play.
Claiming ever to be democratic,
  All species of caste have they smote;
But won’t there be many wry faces
  When woman shall walk up to vote?

3. There’ll have to be diff’rent arrangements,
  When ever election comes round;
No chewing, nor smoking, nor swearing,
  At the polls shall hereafter be found;
Nor yet shall there be any drinking,
  Nor betting, not even a groat;
And men will please take off their beavers,
  When woman shall put in her vote.

4. We’ll have the whole thing reconstructed,
  It’s wrong, from beginning to end;
We’re cut, and we’re made, and we’re fitted,
  Indeed we all know how to mend;
We’re exercised far greater talents,
  In keeping our husbands afloat.
Come Harry, Tom, Dick, mind the cradle,
  We women are going to vote.