Alex Hickey - Who taught those boys?
Channel: AnalogSongs
Date: 26/07/2013

This song was inspired by recent news events - in reaction to the tendency to blame the victim and try to disown any responsibility for the problem of violence and sexualized violence against women, which is partly a cultural problem we all own and can work toward changing. 

Lyrics and Chords:

G C D7 G
Who taught those boys, they could act like that?
C G D7
Did they learn it at home, or on the Internet?
G C D7 C
Did they see it at school, or in shows on TV?
G D7 C D7 G
Did they see it in you and in me?

D7 C G
There are bosses and bullies, running the race
D7 C G
Teachers and parents to keep them in place
D7 C Em
They burn with rebellion, but all that they learn
C D7 C D7 G 
Is how to wield power, when they get their turn

Do they know that it's hateful, do they know that it's cruel
To treat someone else as a thing, as a tool
If they don't understand, they will do it again
And from angry, lost boys will grow violent men

Women have less power; it's plain to see everywhere
Look no further than our makeup and waxed body hair
To see the culture of women and of our bodies is shame
And willing or not, we are saddled with blame

Who teaches girls they should feel like that?
Do they learn it at home or on the internet?
Do they see it at school, or in shows on TV?
Do they see it in you and in me?

We have to try harder, if we want things to change
Need to talk with each other, need to rearrange
The structures and habits of hierarchy
And where else to start but with you and with me?

D7 C G
So the very next time I hear sexism speak
C D7
I won't hesitate, I'll just rise to my feet
G C Em
And say "That kind of thinking, kills women 
and girls,
C D7 C D7 G
By teaching our kids how to be in the world

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Filmed in the West Dublin Community Hall, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia in June 2013.