We don’t need the man

Cover von Malvina Reynolds Song von 1973

It says in Coronet Magazine June
1956 page 10 that married women are not as
happy as women who have no men married
women are cranky frustrated and
disgusted while Dingle women are bright
and gay creative and well
adjusted we don’t need the
man we don’t need the
man we don’t need to have them round
except for now and
then they can come to see us when we
need to move the
piano otherwise they can stay at home
and read about the white socks we don’t
care about them we can do without them
they look cute in bath on a billboard in

Manhattan we don’t need the
man we don’t need the
man we don’t need to have them round
except for now and
then they can come to see us when they
have tickets for the
symphony otherwise they can stay at home
and play a game of
pinoc we don’t care about them we can do
without them they look cute in a bing
suit on a billboard in Wisconsin

we don’t need the
man we don’t need the
man we don’t need to have them round
except for now and
then they can come to see us when
they’re feeling Pleasant and
agreeable otherwise they can stay at
home and holler at the TV
programs we don’t care about them we can
do without them they look cute in a b in
you on a bill put in

we don’t need the
man we don’t need the
man we don’t need to have them round
except for now and
then they can come to see us when they
all dressed up with a suit on otherwise
they can stay at home drop tows in their
bathroom we don’t care about them we can
do without them they look cute in a bath
suit