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Cyndi Lauper re-releases abortion rights single in response to Roe v Wade being overturned-Robert Oliver-Entertainment – Metro
She first released the song back in 1993.
Cyndi Lauper sings for Dick Clarke’s New Years Rockin Eve 2020/2021 (Picture: ABC/Getty Images)
Cyndi Lauper has shared a re-recorded, updated version of her 1993 abortion rights single Sally’s Pigeons.
The 69-year-old singer first wrote and recorded the track in the early 90s for her album Hat Full of Stars, as well as for her greatest hits compilation.
The song tells the story of a real-life friend of Cyndi’s who became pregnant as a teenager and died after undergoing a backstreet abortion.
The Girls Just Wanna Have Fun hitmaker decided to rework the song after the United States Supreme Court overruled Roe v Wade.
Roe v Wade was a landmark decision in which the Court ruled that the US constitution generally protected a pregnant woman’s liberty to have an abortion.
With the decision now reversed, the singer has chosen to re-release the song in an attempt to raise awareness about ‘reproductive freedom’.
Cyndi Lauper, pictured alongside her late mum, has been a long-standing champion of women’s and LGBT+ rights (Picture: Nick Elgar/Corbis/VCG/Getty)
‘The Supreme Court’s radical decision makes the re-recording and re-release of Sally’s Pigeons more relevant than ever,’ the singer said in a statement.
‘In my childhood, women didn’t have reproductive freedom and 50 years later we find ourselves in a time warp where one’s freedom to control their own body has been stripped away.’
Lauper wrote the song with country singer Mary Chapin Carpenter, 64, who had brief success on the UK charts around the time that Sally’s Pigeons was released.
Cyndi released the single Sally’s Pigeons back in 1993 (Picture:@cyndilauper/Instagram)
The statement continued: ‘When I wrote this song with Mary in 1991, we wrote about two little girls who dreamt of stretching their wings like the pigeons they watched that flew above them.’
‘They dreamt of being free. But freedom for women unfortunately now comes at a big price. If we don’t have control over our own bodies then we have no real freedom.’
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The song’s lyrics tell the story of the eponymous protagonist: ‘She left one night with just a nod/ Was lost from some back alley job. I close my eyes and Sally’s pigeons fly.’
Lauper finished her statement with a call for people to mobilise and attempt to reverse the decision made by the Supreme Court.
‘We are second-class citizens. We need to mobilize. We need to let our voices be heard. Equality for all, not just for some. Stand together with those who need our help most right now.’
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