You Don’t Own Me

245. “You Don’t Own Me” by Lesley Gore is considered the first feminist rock song. It was written by John Madara and David White and released in December 1963 a decade before Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman”.

You don’t own me

I’m not just one of your many toys

You don’t own me

Don’t say I can’t go with other boys

And don't tell me what to do
Don't tell me what to say
And please, when I go out with you
Don't put me on display.