Sister Suffragette

Sister Suffragette is one of the songs in the 1964 musical, Mary Poppins.

Production
The song was written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, and was performed by Glynis Johns. The melody was taken from a scrapped song called "Practically Perfect". The song features pro-suffrage elements, mentioning Emmeline Pankhurst, who founded one of the first suffragette organizations. The song serves both as Winifred Banks introduction as well as her theme throughout the film.

In the film
In the film, Mrs. Banks sings the song as she returns home from a suffragette meeting. It serves to establish her role as a suffragette, and details the movement. Mrs. Banks enlists the two servants, Mrs. Brill and Ellen in the song, while the nanny, Katie Nanna, continuously attempts to interrupt them to inform them of Banks children's disappearance. Katie Nanna is finally successful at the end of the song, when she is able to both inform Mrs. Banks that Jane and Michael are missing, and that she has resigned. The song's melody later appears momentarily during the Step in Time sequence, when Mrs. Banks returns home to see the sweeps dancing in the home.