21 DECEMBER 1974, Page 7

Lobby lyrics -6

Though Gertrude, Lady Gushing, fights Unceasingly for women's rights, She makes it very clear that she Does not demand equality, For this, she reasons, would infer That men could be as good as her. The day of which I'm speaking now, This female chauvinistic sow Denounced all City firms who stop A woman rising to the top, "For man's a beast, who only deigns To use our bodies, not our brains."

Lord Sprightly murmured, in reply, 'The noble baroness and I Are speaking with a single voice, For, if I had to make the choice.

I know I'd share with her," he said, "My board-room sooner than my bed."

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