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Original Broadway Cast lyrics : "Woman To Woman"

ELIZABETH
How dare you come,
I set you free to go home

So you could mother your son
Yet you sail and you roam
And you insult me

You have a man-
His passion set him apart
He traded his life for yours

For him I softened my heart
And you insult me
Now worst of all

A woman sails up the thames
"The Pirate Queen" is your ship
That mad effron'try condemns

You most of all
BINGHAM
(spoken)

Grace O'Malley, at last...
The Irish sow on English ground
(more dialogue)

ELIZABETH
(spoken)
So you risk death and my displeasure to speak for your people?

Then speak
GRANIA
Thank you, Your Majesty

It's true you sent a mother to her son
But can't a mother and a woman stand to plead when wrongs are done?
I come to speak for Ireland's need

I ask for dignity no more
Your leaders plunder there for greed
I do not think it's what you planned

Woman to woman, as it were
I ask for justice for my land
There is a time

There is an hour
For those in power
And those they have aggrieved

To put aside all pride
End what has been
Put women's hearts to use

And finally find a true
Achieved
My Queen

(spoken)

Shall I go on?

ELIZABETH
(spoken)
Proceed

GRANIA
I'll tell you now of Irish woes
My child goes hungry every night

ELIZABETH
I do not have a heart of stone
But you defiled my precious fleet

GRANIA
All of our crops get sent to you
How long before we starve outright?

ELIZABETH
You lose a war, you pay a price
GRANIA

Sadly, the men you put in charge
Despoil us everywhere we go
And disrespect our women so

To me, the most egregious crime
ELIZABETH
If this is true, then rest $$#ured, they will be dealt with in good time

BOTH
There is a time
There is an hour

For those in power
To move beyond their ken
A time for women to behave as men

When men aren't men
GRANIA
My Queen...
Who knows the truth that we may glean
ELIZABETH

Let us have a chair set down for Grace
GRANIA
Neither as Chieftain
ELIZABETH
Nor as Queen

BOTH
Woman to woman
Face to face

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