Time retells what time once saw
Maids made shells when men made war
Death’s device that through hell’s door
Reaps a price of blood & gore
Melanin & TNT
Is a toxic recipe
On the skin for all to see
Harbinger of tragedy
Chorus:
Canary girls - canary girls
Canary girls have yellow skin
TNT and melanin
Yellow babies they have too
From the poison that they brew
Canary girls
Where a spark would be ill-met
Dawn til dark munitionette
Made their mark & shed their sweat
To repay what they called debt
Foreign fields where toxic air
Lurked unseen in tunneled lair
Men would dream of those who care
Far away from shot & flare
Chorus:
Photographs now old & worn
Girls as if in fields of corn
Stand with silent shells forlorn
Midwives to their deadly swarm
Sacrifice oh sacrifice
Victims of mans greatest vice
Worked like men for half the price
When the world was fire & ice
Chorus
Ending:
Suffragette Munitionette
Women fight for what they get
Always have and still do yet
Sacrifice we soon forget
Canary girls
