Sandy Rapp

Song for Reproductive Choice

about two activists for prison reform in Mississippi

about a woman (eventually released through the efforts of Eleanor Pam PHD) convicted of shooting her rapist

about ambivalence in relationships

on problems the hippies eventually faced

a semi-silly love song

an upbeat look at the early days of the GLBT movement

about an annual women's music festival hosted by Brenda & Wanda Henson.for many years in Ovett Mississippi. Rapp played many Sister Spirit festivals.

about the architect of the US Supreme Court's 1972 Baird v. Eisenstadt decision legalizing birth control for singles

about the 1988 backstreet-abortion-related death of Indiana teenager Becky Bell

This is the 2020 update of Rapp's musical take on the Trump administration.

AKA Marchin' with Molly Yard, this song is about a women's march on DC and salutes National NOW President Molly Yard.

for those fallen to the anti-gays #SoundCloudRadio

This song is about the National NOW President & Feminist Majority founder Ellie Smeal.

fort the "In Our Shoes" website and about the late poet Maya Angelou’s support for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.

About the first fatality of the 1977 Medicaid-Abortion funding cutoff, this track features a guest vocal by the late Congresswoman Bella Abzug (D-NY). Rosie Jimenez finally turned up dead; So the paper said in Texas. Finally turned up dead, after Medicaid Restrictions took her choice away. Televangelists and their politics Made Jenny Jimenez an orphan. Praying in the light, bombing in the night, They wave their roses red but Rose is dead. Chorus: Get your laws off me; I'm not your property. Don't plan my family; I'll plan my own. I don't want to be, In your theocracy; Remember liberty, Remember Rose. Many more will go by the way of Rose And the ones that went before her. Unless a course is set, present and direct, Because "a chill wind blows" And Rose is dead.

Everyone Was At Stonewall (final update) is a GLBT history written for Sensitivity Training of the Long Island, NY police and premiered at a Long Island Pride Parade. The song won Stonewall Society’s Pride Song of 2004; and Rapp has sung it at hundreds of events around the US, including the Millennium March, and the STONEWALL Veterans’ NYC reunions. Updated yearly with the growing list of GLBT civil-rights states (distinct from the equal-marriage states), “final update” is the final edition, featured in June 2015 on “This Way Out” International Radio. During the Stonewall Era, Rapp sang in Manhattan gaybars Chez Pat and Three.

a tale of Animal Rescue Fund dog Cagney Anne. Rapp has played at over sixty ARF of the Hamptons events.

A tribute to some Second Wave feminists, this song was featured in The New Yorker – 11/13/06 "Talk of the Town". Rise Up Ye Women © Sandy Rapp 2006 & 2012 It was a time of dark and sad song, Seven years with Bella been and gone. Among the leaders from the days of long ago, A troubled time had taken out its toll. And there was one, from Illinois. It’s told how Betty broke a new and grueling ground. She went marchin' in Manhattan up Fifth Avenue ya know; And she wrote a book that turned the world around. Chorus: Rise up ye women or the vintage it will fail, Cried old prophet Isaiah, so they say. And they rose up, the mighty women of a new and movin’ age; And they grew to be the prophets of their day. And there was one, from old Montgomery, She rode a bus to freedom it is told. She went marchin' by with Martin out of Selma long ago; And into history our Rosa rode. And there were two from Pennsylvania, Where liberty is rung from every bell. Molly Yard went marchin' to the rally in the sky; And C. Delores Tucker left as well, Repeat Chorus And let us sing, Coretta Scott King, For out from Alabama did she go. There was Bella’s scribe Mim Kelber; There was Wendy Wasserstein; We lost ‘em all within a year ya know. But we saluted those among us; Kate Millett took the world on with a pen. Sidney Abbot, Barbara Love, Chesler, Morgan, Gloria, They made the Second Wave for NOW and then. Repeat Chorus Sandy Rapp is a feminist songwriter and author of God’s Country: A Case Against Theocracy; Haworth Press 1991. Quoted verbatim in The New Yorker – 11/13/06, “Rise Up Ye Women” was created for a 2006 Women’s Equality Day event at NYC Law School and updated in 2012 for a NYC Veteran Feminists’ salute to Kate Millett. www. SandyRapp.com.

about world transformation at a Washington, DC gathering

Sweetwood Aire © Sandy Rapp 1972 Oh a man came a singin’ o’ the High Countrie Wi’ a hey, ho, nonny, nonny, nonny, no; And a merry, merry man was he; All for a song was he, ho. An’ he went from town to town His sweetwood down upon his knee. There was none from all aroun’ could Match his balladry. And we’d all be a drinkin’ to the break o’ day Wi’ a hey, ho, nonny, nonny, nonny, no; He’d be a merry man upon his way. All for a song was he, ho.

for the late, Congresswoman Bella Abzug (D-NY).

Will Shakespear's advice to his son, from Rapp's score for Sidney Michaels "The Elizabethans" performed in 1972 at Manhattan's New Dramatist Theater Sixpence Song © Sandy Rapp 1972 Son, I give thee sixpence, A penny for you thoughts. A penny if I’m in ‘em and a farthing if I’m not. Put it in your pocket; save it for a day. Take it to the market; spend it on the way. Chorus Never saw the use for money in the hand I brighten the world up when I can. I never lost the love o’ the river and the rain; Over the Avon, home again. Son, I give thee thrupence, a penny for the stage. And if it’s mine I’ll make it thine the day you come of age. Should you tell your mother I sold it out to thee. She’ll slit my throat and buy a boat and sink me in the sea. Repeat chorus Son, I give the tupence, a penny for the rain, The valley low, the tally-ho, the huntin’ o’ the game. Should there come a time, son, You break your heart in two, The country dew will make it new An’ gi’ it back to you. Repeat chorus

about the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.