It’s a Scandal! It’s an Outrage!

[PEDDLER]
Trapped
Tricked
Hoodblinked
Ambushed

[MEN]
Friend, what's on yer mind?
Why do you walk around and around?
With your hands folded behind
And your chin scrapin' the ground?

[PEDDLER]
Oh fellas I don't believe it
Twenty minutes ago I am free like the breeze
Free like a bird in the woodland wild
Free like a gypsy, free like a child
I'm a happy man

I am minding my own business like I oughter
Ain't meanin' any harm to anyone
I'm talking to a certain farmer's daughter—
And then I'm looking into the muzzle of a gun

[MEN]
It's getting so you cain't have any fun
Every daughter has a father with a gun

It's a scandal, it's an outrage
How a gal gets a husband today

[PEDDLER]
If you make one mistakе when the moon is bright
Then thеy tie you to a contract
So you'll make it ev'ry night

[PEDDLER & MEN]
It's a scandal, it's an outrage
When her family surround you and say

[MEN]
"You gotta take and make an honest womern outta Nell!"

[PEDDLER]
To make you make her honest, she will lie like hell

[PEDDLER & MEN]
It's a scandal, it's an outrage
On our manhood, it's a blot
Where is the leader who will save us?
And be the first man to be shot?

[PEDDLER, spoken]
Me?

[MEN, spoken]
Yes you

[MEN]
It's a scandal, it's an outrage
Jist a wink and a kiss and you're through

[PEDDLER]
You're in a mess, and in less than a year, by heck
There's a baby on your shoulder making bubbles on your neck

[MEN]
It's a scandal, it's an outrage
Any farmer will tell you it's true

[PEDDLER]
A rooster in a chickencoop is better off'n men
He ain't the special property of just one hen

[MEN]
It's a scandal, it's an outrage
But there's going to be a day
We're gonna win our liberation
And you

[PEDDLER, spoken]
Me?

[MEN]
Will lead the way