The Danish Peace Academy
Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp Songbook
34 Bridget Evans
There's a woman in Great Britain, Bridget Evans is her name
And she's out on Greenham Common and things will never be the
same
And this is not just Bridget's fight, there's women by the
score
By the hundred, by the thousand, and there'll be ten thousand
more.
(Chorus)
And they're fighting for their families
They're fighting for their friends
And they won't stop, no they won't stop
Till this Nuclear madness ends.
Till this Nuclear madness ends
And Bridget's left her husband and her kids at home in Wales
And she hears what people say of her, that she's gone off the
rails
And she says that men have left their wives and marched off to
their wars
And how can her fight for humankind be any lesser cause?
And Bridget's been to prison for they say she breached the
peace
When she sat inside a sentry box and sang to the police
And her song is growing louder as it echoes off the sun
That Bridget won't leave Greenham till the battle has been won
There's a woman in Great Britain, Bridget Evans is her name
And she's out on Greenham Common and things will never be the
same.
[Words and music: Judy Small, 1983: CD Ladies and Gems. Judy Small Songbook.]
Hear Bridget Evans sung by Judy Small.
[Also recorded by Wild Wimmin for Peace on the MC the Great Peace March, 1986.]
[Also recorded by Elisabeth Gerle on the Swedish MC At vinden
ännu blåser / That the Wind Still Blows, 1988.
Goddess- Brid; Brighid. Bride, or Bridget is associated with health, inspiration, fertility, and motherhood. She is from the Celtic pantheon and is also known to Christians as St. Bridget. As a Christian Saint, she appealed to them as the female leader of a convent and was said to appoint Bishops.
Source: Baywytch: Goddess Bridget.
http://www.goddessschool.com/projects/baywytch/brigid.html]