Heard It Through the Pope-vine

Ooh, you try to be true to your creed

Help others in their time of need.

You took a vow of poverty

Left your home and family.

The Church you pro-mised to obey

But we found out yesterday

Don’t you know that..

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We heard it through the Pope-vine,

You nuns have got to get in line.

We heard it through the Pope-vine,

You women must have lost your minds.

Honey, honey, yeah.

Heard it through the Pope-vine

You nuns have got to get in line

Ooh, ooh, ooh

The Leadership Con-fer-ence

Of Women Re-li-gi-ous

Who would have ever made a guess

You’re radical feminists?

We need to pull you back from sin

And we’ve got just the men

To do it, ’cause

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You women have lost the path

Of patriarchy and God’s wrath

You put too much priority

On health and social equity

The pope knows what is best

To lay your sins to rest.

Don’t you know that

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Suggested intro:
There’s a war on women they won’t win,
Popes, conservatives, congressmen.
Our patience wearing very thin.
We won’t rely on as-pir-in.
This war has got to end!