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MOTHERISM, NOT OTHERISM!

Tune: M-O-T-H-E-R
Songwriter: Lee Stanfield
Gaggle: Tucson
Key: E above Middle C
Written: February 18, 2026
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Men have been in charge for many centuries.

What do we have to show for all that?

A planet with a multitude of miseries

where each man fights to be the fatest cat.

That’s why Mother Nature’s stepping i-in.

She always gets to have the last word.

All the male in-di-vid-u-aliis-m

can’t keep our mother’s truth from being heard.

Cap‘talism fosters competi-i-tion.

Motherism has a bigger view.

Instead of sowing e-ver more di-vi-i-sion,

mothers teach cooperation too!

Mothers know the only way to pea-eace is

making sure that ev‘rything is shared.

When each one gets the same number of pie-ie-ces,

that is how tranquill-i-ty is spared.

Mothering instead of other-i-i-ing,

that’s the only cure for all Earth’s ills.

Sharing equally among all be-i-ings…

that’s the Golden Rule we must ful-fill.