The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home, 'Tis winter, the ladies are gay, The corn top's gone, prohibition's on the swing, The colonel's in eclipse and the women in the ring. We'll get all our rights with the help of Uncle Sam, For the way that they come, we don't give a ____. Weep no more, my lady, Oh, weep no more today, For we'll vote one vote for the old Kentucky home, The old Kentucky home far away.
--lyrics by Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872-1920) (shown in the photo), great-granddaughter of Henry Clay, graduate of the University of Kentucky, a national leader of the suffrage struggle, president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, who lived to see women vote nationally in the 1920 election just after the passage of the 19th Amendment, which Kentucky passed January 6, 1920, largely because of her efforts.
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