Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems  



The Rape Song

Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1975 Schroder Music Company, renewed 2003. A twenty year old Black North Carolinian named JoAnne Little went on trial in July 1975 for killing a guard who raped her while she was in jail. After a month of deliberation she was acquitted, the decision setting a right-of-self-defense precedent for rape victims.

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