In the Beginning Woman

Lyrics

[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 laid to label it babe Luscious as fruit, possessing acute acumen Winsome and winning [SAHLEEM-LA-LUME & ENSEMBLE] In the beginning, woman (Wo-man) Woman (Wo-man) Woman! (Woman!)