Love to Love
Music and lyrics by Elisa Korenne
This song is based on the life of Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927). She was the first woman to run for president, the first woman to publish a newspaper, and the first woman to own a Wall Street Bank. Above all she was, in her own words, “too many years ahead of this age.”
They called me “snake” and “impudent witch”
To say free love would save us made me Satan’s bitch
In 1866, couldn’t be a feminist
I earned myself a fortune and ran twice for president
Married three times, and slept with many others
I slept with hallowed reverends
and I slept with free-love lovers
When men can sleep around while saying
how much women need’em
The first thing women need is sexual freedom
I love to be loved as I love when I love
I’m gonna be loved as I love when I love
If you want to love as I love when I love
You gotta be loved as you love when you love
Born in a wooden shack in Homer,
telling fortunes for my keep
My father starved and hit me;
doctor wed me at 15
Two kids and one drunk husband,
who squandered all our dough
I was an actress, whore, and psychic
for a Travelling Medicine Show
Cornelius Vanderbilt was 76
He got my sister’s and my version of a
sexual psychic fix,
We asked him for a brokerage house to
see what we could get
Selling stock’s like telling futures;
I made a fortune out of it.
I love to be loved as I love when I love
I’m gonna be loved as I love when I love
If you want to love as I love when I love
You gotta be loved as you love when you love
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