Caroline Herring Fair And Tender Ladies lyrics

You write about a place so dear and all it's good and evil
A loving cup, an aching scar, you need no thread and needle
To sew your name into your clothes or hem a ragged line
All muscular and luminous, oh heroine of mine

Ladies, oh ladies
My ladies
My fair and tender ladies
My fair and tender ladies

You raised yourself from mud and spit and opened up your eyes
Stretching out your graceful limbs from heart and soul on fire
From sidewalks and handlebars, summer sun and evening stars
And unincorporated streets, oh heroine I long to meet

Ladies, oh ladies
My ladies
My fair and tender ladies

My fair and tender ladies
Ladies, ladies, ladies, ladies

You set aside your trays and flowers like a ball and chain
You understood a time and place upon which you proclaimed
Your skirt was not to hide behind, your womanhood no alibi
You would not live so man could die, oh white gloved heroine of mine

Ladies, oh ladies
My ladies
My fair and tender ladies
My fair and tender ladies
My fair and tender ladies
My fair and tender ladies