Name: Let Your Pretty Hair Hang Down
Duration: P00H05M36S
Description: Conflicted feelings about women in Islam. The Chador and the Burka are oppressive, yet some women may choose this freely. Hijab and less restrictive garb is alright, perhaps even empowering, but what if it enables the other? I can't resolve this, but I can write about it! Feminist song I guess. Not sure. Ya Hazrateh Tahirih!

Let Your Pretty Hair Hang Down

from Alamogordo's Son by Coz the Shroom

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Conflicted feelings about women in Islam. The Chador and the Burka are oppressive, yet some women may choose this freely. Hijab and less restrictive garb is alright, perhaps even empowering, but what if it enables the other? I can't resolve this, but I can write about it! Feminist song I guess. Not sure. Ya Hazrateh Tahirih!

lyrics

Isn't she weird a hairy body and a beard
Society scolds her and takes her to be sheared
Isn't it fun to make an object of her
When she looks at me and calls me sir
She'll stay down
Let your pretty hair hang down

Isn't it stupid how the boys all get a say
When she goes out into to a world of rape
She's an ugly orc with no place in mordor
Keep her submissive impenetrable chador
She'll stay down
Let your pretty hair hang down

Like Batman she's a costumed freak
A target any time of the week
Any season anytime she'll bleed
Identity is tied to thee
Her pretty hair is bound away
She puts her self in evil's way

Like children sold to slavery
To perverts so unbound and free
And when they finish beating thee
Thy grave will be beneath a tree
Her pretty hair is bound away
What choice could keep the dogs at bay

Isn't she strange she's taking stones in the face
An acid attack she's punished if she's raped
A fire in the kitchen when he's done with her
I demand that she always calls me sir
She'll stay down
Let your pretty hair hang down

A horror show direct to DVD
As a child they gave her a clitoretomy
Like objects collected by a human hoarder
The wives with their lives spent in a chador
She'll stay down
Let you pretty hair hang down

A superhero in black sheets
Another broken dismal freak
Any season anytime she'll bleed
Identity is tied to thee
Her pretty hair is bound away
She puts her self in evil's way

Like children sold to slavery
To perverts so unbound and free
Child marriage and a life of hell
Thy grave is hidden in a well
Her pretty hair is bound away
What choice could keep the dogs at bay

Ya Hazrat'eh Tahirih

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from Alamogordo's Son, released March 10, 2019
drum track downloaded from John Page Contraband, "free to use, please give me credit" there. done. and handsomely earned, sir!

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Coz the Shroom New Mexico

NOW RETIRED TO BECOME A MONK AND FOLLOW THE TAO TE CHING.
Cassette artist since 1979, Former Austin punk rocker, (18 years in Austin Texas) independent recording artist, and part of the SUCKDOG circus from 1991 to 1998. long time performance artist, writer, and psychonaut. ... more

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