Chords for Gonna Be An Engineer

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_ _ _ When I was a little girl I wished I was a boy I tagged along behind the gang and wore me corduroys
Everybody said I only did it to annoy but [Ab] I was gonna be an [Db] engineer
_ [Gb] Mama told me can't you [Ebm] be a [Bb] lady Your [Gb] duty is to make me the [Abm] mother [Ab] of a pearl
[Gb] Wait until you're older [Bb] dear and [B] maybe _ [Bbm] You'll be glad that you're [Ebm] a girl
Dainty [Eb] as a dressed in [Ebm] statue _ Gentle as a jersey [Bbm] cow
_ [B] Smooth as silk [Gb] gives creamy milk [B] Learn to coo, [Gb] learn to moo
[Ebm] That's what you do to [Abm] be a lady now
_ [Db] _ _ _ [Gb] [Ebm] When I went to school I learned to write and how to read Some history, geography and home economy
_ [Gb] Typing is [Ebm] a skill that every girl should [Gb] need To while [Ebm] away the extra time until the time to breed
[Gb] Then I had [Ebm] the nerve to say what would you like to be [Ab] I says I'm gonna be an engineer
_ [Gb] No you only need to learn to [Ab] be a lady [B] The duty isn't [Abm] yours for to try [Ab] and run the world
An [Gb] engineer could never have a [B] baby [Gb] Remember dear that you're a girl
[Ebm] She's [Eb] smart for a [Gb] woman [Ebm] I wonder how she got [Bbm] that way _
[B] You get no [Gb] choice, you get no [Ab] [B] voice Just say mom, pretend you're [Ebm] dumb
And that's how you come to [Abm] be a lady today
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[Gb] Then Jimmy come [Ab] along and we set [Eb] up a [Gb] conjugation We were [Abm] busy every night loving [Eb] recreation
[Gb] I spent the day at work so he could get his [Ebm] education Well now he's an [Db] engineer
[Gb] He says I know you'll [Ebm] always be a [Bb] lady It's the duty [Gb] of my darling [Ab] to love me all her life
[Gb] Could an engineer look after [Bb] or obey [B] me [Bbm]
Remember dear that you're my wife _ _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ Well as soon [Abm] as Jimmy got a [Ebm] job I began again Then happy [Abm] at me to at lay [Gb] the year or so
And then the morning that the twins were [Gb] born Jimmy says to them [Ebm] kids
Your mother was an [Db] engineer _ [Gb] You owe it to the kids to [Ab] be a lady
[B] Dainty [Gb] as a dishrag, [Ab] faithful as a child [Gb] Stay at home you got to mind [B] the baby
[Gb] Remember you're a mother now Well every time I turn around it's something else to do
It's cook a meal, mend a sock, sweep a floor [Abm] or two
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Listening [Eb] to Jimmy Young [Gb] it makes me want to [Ebm] spew I was gonna be an [Db] engineer
[Eb] _ _ [Gb] Don't I really wish that I [Ab] could be a [Bb] lady I could do [Gb] the lovely things that a [Ab] lady's supposed to do
[Gb] I wouldn't even mind if [Bb] only they [B] would pay [Gb] me That I [Ab] could be a person [Fm] too
[Ebm] What price [Eb] for a [Gb] woman [Ebm] you could buy her for a [Bbm] ring of gold
[B] To love and obey [Gb] without any pay You [B] get a cook and a nurse for better or worse
[Ebm] You don't need a [Abm] purse when the lady is sold
_ [Db] _ _ [Gb] Ah but now that [Eb] times are [Gb] harder and me Jimmy's [Abm] got the sack
I [Eb] went down to Vickers [Gb] they were glad to have [Eb] me back But I'm a third class citizen
My wages tell me [Ebm] that and I'm a first class [Ab] engineer
_ [Gb] The boss she says we pay [Ab] you as a lady [B] You [Gb] only got the job cause I [Abm] can't afford a man
With you I keep the profits [Bb] highest maybe [Bbm] You're just [Ab] a cheaper pair [Gb] of hands
You got one [Eb] fault you're a [Gb] woman [Ebm] You're not worth the [Bbm] equal pay
_ [B] A bitch or a [Gb] tart you're nothing but hard [B] Shallow and vain [Ebm] you got no brain
You even go down the drain [F] like a lady could [Abm] dain
_ [Db] _ _ Well I [Ebm] listened to my mother and I joined a typing pool
I listened to my lover and I put him through his school
[Gb] _ But if [Ebm] I listen to the boss I'm just a bloody fool [Ab] and an underpaid [Db] engineer
[Gb] I've been a sucker ever since I was a [Bb] baby As a daughter, [Gb] as a [Abm] wife, as a mother [Ab] and a dear
[Gb] But I fight them as a woman [Bb] not a [B] lady [Db] Fight them as an [Eb] engineer
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