On the front porch of their home in Sayre St. Montgomery, Alabama, 18 year old Zelda Sayre is being berated by her mother and sister Rosalind for her ‘wayward’ attitude. Zelda sings:-

Cos I simply refuse to be a girl
Just a sweet little cultivated pearl
Someday becoming
A wife and a mother
Slave to a man

It’s not what I have in mind, not at all
Always waiting on his beck and call
It wouldn’t be fair
It’s so old-fashioned

Nineteen hundred eighteen’s a modern world
Every woman should have her flag unfurled
I’m not gonna let em tell me who to be
I’m gonna do just what I want
I’m all grown up
You all just wait and see