| We are ruled by our brothers
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| We are ruled by our husbands
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| We jump at the voices of our masters
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| And do what they say
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| We are bartered and traded
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| Along with cattle and cotton
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| We have to beautiful
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| And it helps to have a dowery of some kind
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| We have to show humility
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| And have the presence of mind
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| To never complain
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| And they say it’s our fault
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| We were thrown out of eden
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| To be turned into salt
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| But there is a way back to paradise, there is a way
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| Study all men, learn what they lack
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| Sweeten and stroke before you attack
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| Put up a front, and then slip through the back
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| Be on your way back to paradise
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| Long ago, back in Eden (Eden)
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| When we didn’t need husbands (Husbands)
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| We danced to the voices in the garden
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| And had our own way
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| We were taught by our mothers
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| Along the river of knowledge (By the river of knowledge)
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| Our garden was beautiful
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| Until the angels came to call
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| And on the wings of jealousy
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| They brought down the fall
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| And gave the garden to men (Ah)
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| And put it out of our touch (Ah)
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| We were thrown out of eden (Ah)
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| For knowing to much
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| But there is a way back to paradise, there is a way
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| Bide your time (Bide your time)
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| Be clever and wise (Clever and wise)
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| When you look at a man (When you look at a man)
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| Look him straight in the eyes (Straight in the eyes)
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| Do not be seduced, tell him elegant lies
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| Be on your way
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| Be on your way back to paradise |