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Pick on the Boys

from Maidens Rock by Cone of Magic

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We're willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that you have never heard a song that had the phrases "We work better in a group" and "Boinking like a Stooge" in it. Until now.

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Pick on the Boys
© 2020 Dan McLaughlin
All Rights Reserved

Make Boys the ones who have to conform,
Backwards from death till the day they’re born.
Let Boys know the ever present constant fear,
Of not being pretty; being slutty, or too queer.

Hey!

BOYS boys boys!
They like to yell and hit,
Pick on the boys!
They didn’t mean to do it.
Pick on the boys!
They can’t even eat their soup,
Pick on the boys!
We work better in a group.

Make Boys the ones who have to conform,
Backwards from death till the day they’re born.
Let Boys know the ever present constant fear,
Of not being pretty; being slutty, or too queer.

Pick on the boys!
Pick on the boys!

BOYS boys boys!
Try to look so nice and smart,
Pick on the boys!
Funny to them is a fart.
Pick on the boys!
They make us girls cover up,
Pick on the boys!
They're the real butter cup.


Make Boys the ones who have to conform,
Backwards from death till the day they’re born.
Let Boys know the ever present constant fear,
Of not being pretty; being slutty, or too queer.

Why is the girl the one tied to a post?
Why is the girl unacknowledged like a ghost?
Why must she never, no not once, be seen as proud?
Her Sacrifice gets at best a muslin shroud.



BOYS boys boys!
They say we waste time with rouge,
Oh, Pick on the boys!
While they’re Boinking like a stooge.
Pick on the boys!
Do something better than they,
Pick on the boys!
She’s a smarty pants they’ll say.

Make Boys the ones who have to conform,
Backwards from death till the day they’re born.
Let Boys know the ever present constant fear,
Of not being pretty; being slutty, or too queer.

Hey!
Pick on the boys!
Pick on the boys!
Pick on the boys!

credits

from Maidens Rock, released April 8, 2020
Lead vocals by Margit Elland Schmitt.

Background vocals by Sandra Cadell.

Words and Notes by Dan McLaughlin.

Additional lyrics by Margit Elland Schmitt.


Musical tracks arranged and recorded by Supreme Tracks (New York, NY).
Vocal tracks recorded and mixed by James Wood at Live Oak Studio (Berkeley, CA), February, 2020.

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