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In the Beginning Woman Lyrics by Rosemary Ashe

Kismet (Original Studio Cast - First Complete Recording)

1997

[SAHLEEM-LA-LUME]
It is here enscrolled that in Africa
From the Niger to the Nile
The gods of old were goddesses
And women had wit and wisdom
As well as style
So whence this masculine nonsense
About Adam and his absent rib
Can it be a conspiracy
Man's oldest, boldest, most fantastic fib
In the beginning, woman
Sometime thereafter man
Came then the moment
Man looked at woman
That's when begatting began
In the beginning, virgin
From out of nowhеre, boy
At virgin's urgin'
Boy merged with virgin
And from that mеrgin', joy
Scrap as pap, those other tales
Tales that males came first
They're the worst!
Spread instead Earth Mother tales
Men have been menaces ever since Genesis
Just as it's chaptered and versed
Out of the primal chaos
Out of the swell and swirl
Rose a resplendent, virtue-invested
Full but firm-breasted girls
Predating Adam
We had a madam human
Long before sinning
In the beginning, woman
Skip that flip fictitious tale
Vicious tale
That's what my advice is
[SAHLEEM-LA-LUME, spoken]
And you better take it
[SAHLEEM-LA-LUME]
For a more propitious tale, delicious tale
As to how Venus, Astarte and Isis
Always come through in a crisis
Back in the time primeval
In that preglacial glade
Sprang up a creature
Fragile of feature, man [?]
Luscious as fruit, possessing acute acumen
Winsome and winning
[SAHLEEM-LA-LUME & ENSEMBLE]
In the beginning, woman ([?])
Woman ([?])
Woman! ([?])
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Rosemary Ashe

Rosemary Ashe

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