***My grandpa said when the men become women and the women become men, the country is done. How did he know 75 years ago what would happen?***
Maybe he heard this old song from the 1920s.
Masculine Women! Feminine Men!
Hey! Hey! Women are going mad, today!
Hey! Hey! Fellers are just as bad, I’ll say!
Go anywhere, just stand and stare,
You’ll say they’re bugs when you look at the clothes they wear.
Masculine Women, Feminine Men,
which is the rooster which is the hen?
It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today. And SAY…
Sister is busy learning to shave,
Brother just loves his permanent wave,
It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today. HEY! HEY!
Girls were girls and boys were boys when I was a tot,
Now we don’t know who is who or even what’s what.
Knickers and trousers, baggy and wide,
Nobody knows who’s walking inside.
Those Masculine Women, Feminine Men
Masculine Women. Feminine Men
which is the rooster which is the hen?
It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today. And SAY…
Auntie is smoking, rolling her own,
Uncle is always buying cologne.
It’s hard to tell ‘em apart today. HEY! HEY!
You go and give your girl a kiss in the hall,
But instead you find you’re kissing her brother Paul.
Mama’s got a sweater up to her chin,
Papa’s got a girtle holding him in.
Those Masculine Women, Feminine Men
My goodness. I guess he wasn’t so prophetic after all lol. He would have been about 30 I think when that song came out so he would have known it.
I can’t believe It was written back then :)
Yeah, I have a recording of that as done by Merritt Brunies and his Friars Inn Orchestra. Circa 1925 or 1926, I believe. Although not exactly common, there were a handful of pop tunes that had a similar underlying cultural critique to them. “Anything Goes” and “Loveless Love” being two of the most remembered examples.