John Robertson
Inspired by the struggle of the Waspi women: https://suno.com/s/ro9Swatu47IGsdVU
Punk version approved by at least one Waspi woman leader after seeing Riot Girls: https://suno.com/s/ro9Swatu47IGsdVU
Lyrics with Wawspi so the AI could pronounce it:
We were promised, were promised we’d be there to do it
We trusted that we’d still be strong enough agile enough
Strong enough to care for our parents as they weakened
Enough to take the bairns and meet them at the school gate
We are the Wawspi Women who wait
For many now it’s too bloody late
We are the Wawspi women who care
And were denied the right to be there
If we’re too old when it comes, we’ll be weakened too
More often we’re in poverty, more often in sickness
How can we help when we’ve begun to need help too
They may not be cruel, but they just don’t understand
We are the Wawspi Women who wait
For many now it’s too bloody late
We are the Wawspi women who care
And were denied the right to be there
It is ten years now since Westminster made it law
Major and Lilley were the ones to tell us the news
The country couldn’t afford the cost to help us
Yet the tax cuts and their expenses could be met
We are the Wawspi Women who wait
For many now it’s too bloody late
We are the Wawspi women who care
And were denied the right to be there
Then Blair and Brown took the very same line
Cameron, May and all the fools after them too
The latest are drowning and grasp for our hands
But we’ve learned our lesson and will not do it
We are the Wawspi Women who wait
For many now it’s too bloody late
We are the Wawspi women who care
And were denied the right to be there
We are the Wawspi Women who wait
For many now it’s too bloody late
We are the Wawspi women who care
And were denied the right to be there
Background:
Singing Scotland's Future and Past 
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