Votes for Women: Tune - "Teribus" official song sheet by the WSPU

[WSPU] WOMEN’S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION. Votes for Women. Tune “Teribus”.
 
Hawick: Printed and Published by W. Henderson, 11 High Street, [c.1909–1913].
 
Single broadside song sheet, 180 × 120 mm, printed on one side only. Original paper, unbound as issued. small marginal nicks and light creasing from use; faint toning; a contemporary hand written heading at head, “Border Borough Election”; otherwise complete and legible. Very good. 
 
A WSPU campaign song set to the traditional Borders tune “Teribus”, opening “Rise ye men of Border Burghs, / Show yourselves in your true colours…”, with a chorus urging “Votes for Women… Vote and keep the Liberal out.” The imprint gives both the London headquarters of the National Women’s Social & Political Union at 4 Clement’s Inn and local offices in Hawick and Galashiels, indicating production for active campaigning in the Scottish Borders election.
 
The adaptation of a Scottish regional patriotic melody for suffrage purposes reflects the WSPU’s strategy of embedding its message within local political culture during by-election campaigns, using communal song as a form of mobilisation and solidarity. 
 
This is an ephemeral provincial WSPU song sheet and survival rates were low; copies with local imprints are uncommon.