Chords for Peggy Seeger.(Gonna Be An Engineer) @Shepley Spring Festival 2008

Girl, I wish there was a boy I can't [Ebm] belong behind a gang of horny port-a [Gb]-roys
Everybody said I only do it to annoy [Ab] But I was gonna be an [Db] engineer
_ [Gb] Monaco, you can't you be a [Bb] lady?
[B] Your duty is [Ab] to make me the mother of a pearl
[Gb] Wait until you're older, dear, and [B] maybe You'll be glad that you're [Gb] a girl
Dainty as a [Eb] Dresden [Ab] statue [Eb] Gentle as a [Ebm] Jersey cow
[Fm] _
[B] Smooth as [Ab] silk, it's creamy milk Learn to [Gb] coo, learn to moo
[Gb] That's what you do to be a [Abm] lady now
_ [Db] _ _ [Gb] Well, when I went to school I learned to write and how to read
Some history, geography, and a whole economy And [Ebm] typing is a skill that every girl should
[Gb] need To while away the extra time until it's
time to breed Then they had the nerve to say,
What would you like to [Ab] be?
I said, I'm gonna be an [Db] engineer _
[Gb] No, you only need to learn to be a [Bb] lady [Ab] The duty isn't yours for to [Db] try and run the world
[Gb] An engineer could [Bb] never have a baby Remember, dear, that [Gb] you're a girl
She's [Ebm] smart [F] for a woman [Ebm] I wonder how she got [Bbm] that way
You get [B] no choice, [Gb] you get no [B] voice Just stay mum, pretend you're [Ebm] dumb
That's how you come [Db] to be a lady [Abm] today
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_ [Gb] Then Jimmy [Ab] come along, we set up a conjugation We were busy [Gb] every night with love and recreation
I spent the day at work so he could get his education
[Ebm] Well, now he's an [Db]
engineer _ [Gb] He says to know you'll [Ab] always be a lady
It's the [Gb] duty of my [Abm] darling to love me all [Db] her life
[Ab] Could an engineer look after or obey me?
Remember, dear, that you're my [A] wife
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ Well, as soon as Jimmy got a job I began again And happy [Ebm] at my current rate a year or so
And [Gb] then the morning [Ebm] that the twins were born Jimmy says to [Ab] them, dear, your mother wasn't an engineer
[Gb] You owe it to the kids to be a [Bb]
lady [Ab] Dainty as a dishrag, [Db] faithful as a chow
[Gb] Stay at home, you've got to mind the [Eb] baby Remember, [Ab] you're a mother now _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Who knows this song?
_ _ _ [Gb] _
Well, every time a turner comes
Something else to do Cook a meal, mend a sock, sweep the floor or two
Hold an apple potty when the baby wants to poo [Ab] I was gonna be an [Db] engineer
You know, I really wish that I could be a lady I could [Gb] do the lovely things that a [Db] lady's supposed
to do [Ab] I wouldn't even know if only they would pay me I could be a person [F] too
What price for a [Ab] woman do [Eb] you buy her for a ring of [Bbm] gold?
To [Bm] love and obey [Gb] without any pay [B] You get your pen and your nurse [Gb] for better or worse
[Eb] You don't need your [Abm] purse when the lady is sold
_ [Db] _
_ [Gb] Ah, and now the times are harder and the kids got the sack
[Ebm] I went down to pick her and say, we're glad to have me back But I'm a third-class citizen
The wages tell me that and [Ab] I'm a first-class [Db] engineer
_ [Gb] The boss, he says, to pay you as [Ab] a lady [B] You know, you've only got the [Db] job
Cause I can't afford a man [Gb] But if you wanna keep the profit high as it [Abm] may be
[Ab] You're just a cheap pair of [Gb] hands You've got one foot, you're a [F] woman
[Eb] You're not worth the equal [Bbm] pay [Ebm] A bitch or a turd, [Gb] you're nothing but art
[B] Shallow and [Gb] mean, you've got no brain You [Abm] even go down the drain like a lady today
_ [Db] _
_ _ Well, I listen to [Ebm] my mother and the children fight and fool
[Gb] I listen to my lover and the foot-and-toe school But if I listen to the boss,
I'm just a bloody fool and [Ab] an underpaid [Db] engineer
I've been [Gb] a sucker ever since I was a [Bb] baby As a daughter, as a wife, as a mother [Db] and a dear
[Gb] But I fight them as a woman, not a [B] lady [Abm] Fight them as an engineer with [Eb] my boots on
[Ab] _ Fight them [Gb] as an engineer
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My [F] words _ _ _ _ _
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