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ROSIE the RIVETER

All the day long,
Whether Rain or shine,
She's a part of the assembly line.
She's making history,
Working for victory,
ROSIE the RIVETER.

Keeps a sharp lookout for sabotage,
Sitting up there on the fuselage.
That little girl will do more than a male will do.

ROSIE'S got a boyfriend, Charlie.
Charlie, he's a Marine.
ROSIE is protecting Charlie,
Working overtime on the Riveting machine.

When they gave her a production "E",
She was as proud as she could be,
There's something true about,
Red, white, and blue about,
ROSIE the RIVETER.

Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb

"ROSIE the RIVETER" was a classic folk hero who helped mobilize the popular image of women in the work force during World War II.

There were huge campaigns of propaganda posters and flyers that went around supporting the idea of women entering the work place while men were away in the war.

The well-known poster with the women in a bandana shouting, "We Can Do It!"was created before "ROSIE the RIVETER" was shown in the film promoting the war effort.

There was in fact a real "ROSIE the RIVETER".

Even though she was found after they had created the classical character, she fit the profile completely.

Rose Monroe was the Real life "ROSIE the RIVETER", a Riveter in the Willow Run Aircraft Factory in Michigan, Riveting plane parts together.

She had moved from Kentucky to Michigan after her husband died, and Riveting planes to help support herself and her two children.

While making a short film about selling war bonds, actor Walter Pidgeon discovered her.

He then decided to make her into "ROSIE the RIVETER" in the film, she also appeared in other promotional war films.

According to one of her daughters, Vickie Jarvis, "she happened to be in the Right place at the Right time and was chosen to be in some of these films."

The character of "ROSIE the RIVETER" was credited for an enormous increase in the number of women joining the work force to help support the war.

The emergence of women doing predominately men's jobs led indirectly to the issue of the Women's Movement.

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