Chords for Peggy Seeger - I'm Gonna Be an Engineer cover
Tempo:
71.725 bpm
Chords used:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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When I was a little girl, I wished I was a boy.
I tagged along behind the gang and wore my corduroys.
Everybody said I only did it to annoy, [Eb] but I was gonna be an [Ab] engineer.
[Bbm] Mama told me, can't you be a lady?
[Db] Your duty is to [Ebm] make me the [Db] mother of a pearl.
Wait until you're older, dear, then maybe [Fm] you'll be glad that [Db] you're a girl.
Dainty as a [Bbm] dressing statue, gentle as a [Fm] jersey cow,
smooth as [Db] silk gives creamy [Gb] milk.
Learn to [Bbm] cool, learn to move.
That's what you do to be a [Ebm] lady now.
[C] [Db] When [Bbm] I went to school, I learned to write and how to read.
Some history, geography, and home [Db] economy.
And typing is a skill that every girl is sure to need.
To while [Bbm] away the extra time until [Db] the time to breathe.
And then [Bbm] they had the nerve to say, what would you like to be?
I says, I'm gonna [Ab] be an engineer.
[Cm] [Db] No, you only need to learn [Eb] to be a lady.
[Bbm] The duty isn't yours for to try [Ab] and run the [Db] world.
An engineer could never have a baby.
Remember, dear, that you're a [Bbm] girl.
She's smart for a woman.
I wonder how she got [Fm] that way.
[Gbm] You get no choice.
[Db] You get no voice.
Just [Bbm] stay mum, [Ab] pretend you're dumb.
[Bbm] And that's how you come [Eb] to be a lady today.
[Ab] [Db] Jimmy [Bbm] came along and we set up [Db] a congregation.
We were busy every night with love and recreation.
Spent [Bbm] the day at work so he could get his education.
[Eb] Now he's an [Ab] engineer.
[Db] He says, [Eb] I know you'll always be a [Db] lady.
It's the duty of my [Ab] darling to love [Db] me all her life.
Could an engineer look after or obey me?
Remember, dear, that you're my wife.
[Bb] [Bbm]
[Db] [Bbm]
[Db] As soon [Bbm] as Jimmy got a job, then I [Db] began again.
Happy at me to it late the year or so.
And then the morning [Bbm] that the twins were born,
and Jimmy says to them, kids, your mother [Ab] was an engineer.
[Db] Well, you owe it to the kids to be a [Bbm] lady.
Dainty as a [Ebm] dishrag, faithful as a [Db] chow.
Stay at home, you got to mind the [Db] baby.
Remember, you're a mother now.
[Bbm] [Db] Well, every time I turn around, it's [Bbm] something else to do.
It's cook a meal or mend a sock or [Db] sweep a floor or two.
[Bbm] Listening to Jimmy Young, it makes me want to spew
[Eb] because I was gonna be an engineer.
[Cm] [Db] I really wish that I [Bbm] could be a lady.
I could do [Db] the lovely things a [Db] lady's supposed to do.
I wouldn't even mind if only they would pay me.
Then I could be a person [Ab] too.
[Bbm] What price [Bbm] for a woman?
You could buy her with a ring [Fm] of gold.
To love [Db] and obey without any pay.
You get a cook and a nurse for better [Eb] or [Bbm] worse.
You don't need a [Eb] purse when the lady is sold.
[Ab] [Db] Now [Bbm] the times are harder and me [Db] Jimmy's got the sack.
Well, I went down to Vickers.
They were glad to have me back.
But I'm a third [Bbm] class citizen.
My wages tell me that [Eb] and I'm a first class [Ab] engineer.
[Db] My boss, he says, we pay you as a [Bbm] lady.
You only got the [Ebm] job because I can't afford a man.
[Db] With you, I keep the profits high as [Db] maybe.
You're just [Fm] a cheaper pair of hands.
[Bbm] You got one fault.
[Bbm] You're a woman not worth the [Fm] equal pay.
[Gbm] A bitch [Db] or a tart, you're nothing but hard.
[Gb] Shallow and [Bbm] vain.
You got no brain.
[Bbm] You even go down the drain [Ebm] like a lady today.
[Ab] Well, I listen [Bbm] to my mother and I join the piping pool.
I listen to my lover and I put him [Db] through a school.
But if I listen [Bbm] to the boss, well, then I'm just a bloody fool
[Eb] and an underpaid [Ab] engineer.
[Db] I've been a sucker ever since I was a [Bbm] baby.
As a daughter, as a wife, [Ebm] a mother and a dear.
[Db] But I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady.
I'll fight them as an engineer.
[E] [Bbm]
[Db] Peggy Seeger, what a badass.
I'll see you next week.
When I was a little girl, I wished I was a boy.
I tagged along behind the gang and wore my corduroys.
Everybody said I only did it to annoy, [Eb] but I was gonna be an [Ab] engineer.
[Bbm] Mama told me, can't you be a lady?
[Db] Your duty is to [Ebm] make me the [Db] mother of a pearl.
Wait until you're older, dear, then maybe [Fm] you'll be glad that [Db] you're a girl.
Dainty as a [Bbm] dressing statue, gentle as a [Fm] jersey cow,
smooth as [Db] silk gives creamy [Gb] milk.
Learn to [Bbm] cool, learn to move.
That's what you do to be a [Ebm] lady now.
[C] [Db] When [Bbm] I went to school, I learned to write and how to read.
Some history, geography, and home [Db] economy.
And typing is a skill that every girl is sure to need.
To while [Bbm] away the extra time until [Db] the time to breathe.
And then [Bbm] they had the nerve to say, what would you like to be?
I says, I'm gonna [Ab] be an engineer.
[Cm] [Db] No, you only need to learn [Eb] to be a lady.
[Bbm] The duty isn't yours for to try [Ab] and run the [Db] world.
An engineer could never have a baby.
Remember, dear, that you're a [Bbm] girl.
She's smart for a woman.
I wonder how she got [Fm] that way.
[Gbm] You get no choice.
[Db] You get no voice.
Just [Bbm] stay mum, [Ab] pretend you're dumb.
[Bbm] And that's how you come [Eb] to be a lady today.
[Ab] [Db] Jimmy [Bbm] came along and we set up [Db] a congregation.
We were busy every night with love and recreation.
Spent [Bbm] the day at work so he could get his education.
[Eb] Now he's an [Ab] engineer.
[Db] He says, [Eb] I know you'll always be a [Db] lady.
It's the duty of my [Ab] darling to love [Db] me all her life.
Could an engineer look after or obey me?
Remember, dear, that you're my wife.
[Bb] [Bbm]
[Db] [Bbm]
[Db] As soon [Bbm] as Jimmy got a job, then I [Db] began again.
Happy at me to it late the year or so.
And then the morning [Bbm] that the twins were born,
and Jimmy says to them, kids, your mother [Ab] was an engineer.
[Db] Well, you owe it to the kids to be a [Bbm] lady.
Dainty as a [Ebm] dishrag, faithful as a [Db] chow.
Stay at home, you got to mind the [Db] baby.
Remember, you're a mother now.
[Bbm] [Db] Well, every time I turn around, it's [Bbm] something else to do.
It's cook a meal or mend a sock or [Db] sweep a floor or two.
[Bbm] Listening to Jimmy Young, it makes me want to spew
[Eb] because I was gonna be an engineer.
[Cm] [Db] I really wish that I [Bbm] could be a lady.
I could do [Db] the lovely things a [Db] lady's supposed to do.
I wouldn't even mind if only they would pay me.
Then I could be a person [Ab] too.
[Bbm] What price [Bbm] for a woman?
You could buy her with a ring [Fm] of gold.
To love [Db] and obey without any pay.
You get a cook and a nurse for better [Eb] or [Bbm] worse.
You don't need a [Eb] purse when the lady is sold.
[Ab] [Db] Now [Bbm] the times are harder and me [Db] Jimmy's got the sack.
Well, I went down to Vickers.
They were glad to have me back.
But I'm a third [Bbm] class citizen.
My wages tell me that [Eb] and I'm a first class [Ab] engineer.
[Db] My boss, he says, we pay you as a [Bbm] lady.
You only got the [Ebm] job because I can't afford a man.
[Db] With you, I keep the profits high as [Db] maybe.
You're just [Fm] a cheaper pair of hands.
[Bbm] You got one fault.
[Bbm] You're a woman not worth the [Fm] equal pay.
[Gbm] A bitch [Db] or a tart, you're nothing but hard.
[Gb] Shallow and [Bbm] vain.
You got no brain.
[Bbm] You even go down the drain [Ebm] like a lady today.
[Ab] Well, I listen [Bbm] to my mother and I join the piping pool.
I listen to my lover and I put him [Db] through a school.
But if I listen [Bbm] to the boss, well, then I'm just a bloody fool
[Eb] and an underpaid [Ab] engineer.
[Db] I've been a sucker ever since I was a [Bbm] baby.
As a daughter, as a wife, [Ebm] a mother and a dear.
[Db] But I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady.
I'll fight them as an engineer.
[E] [Bbm]
[Db] Peggy Seeger, what a badass.
I'll see you next week.
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When I was a little girl, I wished I was a boy.
I tagged along behind the gang and wore my corduroys.
Everybody said I only did it to annoy, [Eb] but I was gonna be an [Ab] engineer. _
[Bbm] Mama told me, can't you be a lady?
[Db] Your duty is to [Ebm] make me the [Db] mother of a pearl.
Wait until you're older, dear, then maybe [Fm] you'll be glad that [Db] you're a girl.
Dainty as a [Bbm] dressing statue, gentle as a [Fm] jersey cow,
smooth as [Db] silk gives creamy [Gb] milk.
Learn to [Bbm] cool, learn to move.
That's what you do to be a [Ebm] lady now.
_ [C] [Db] When [Bbm] I went to school, I learned to write and how to read.
Some history, geography, and home [Db] economy.
And typing is a skill that every girl is sure to need.
To while [Bbm] away the extra time until [Db] the time to breathe.
And then [Bbm] they had the nerve to say, what would you like to be?
I says, I'm gonna [Ab] be an engineer.
[Cm] [Db] No, you only need to learn [Eb] to be a lady.
[Bbm] The duty isn't yours for to try [Ab] and run the [Db] world.
An engineer could never have a baby.
Remember, dear, that you're a [Bbm] girl.
She's smart for a woman.
I wonder how she got [Fm] that way.
[Gbm] You get no choice.
[Db] You get no voice.
Just [Bbm] stay mum, [Ab] pretend you're dumb.
[Bbm] And that's how you come [Eb] to be a lady today.
_ [Ab] _ [Db] Jimmy [Bbm] came along and we set up [Db] a congregation.
We were busy every night with love and recreation.
Spent [Bbm] the day at work so he could get his education.
[Eb] Now he's an [Ab] engineer.
[Db] He says, [Eb] I know you'll always be a [Db] lady.
It's the duty of my [Ab] darling to love [Db] me all her life.
Could an engineer look after or obey me?
Remember, dear, that you're my wife.
[Bb] _ [Bbm] _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _
[Db] As soon [Bbm] as Jimmy got a job, then I [Db] began again.
Happy at me to it late the year or so.
And then the morning [Bbm] that the twins were born,
and Jimmy says to them, kids, your mother [Ab] was an engineer.
[Db] Well, you owe it to the kids to be a [Bbm] lady.
Dainty as a [Ebm] dishrag, faithful as a [Db] chow.
Stay at home, you got to mind the [Db] baby.
Remember, you're a mother now.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] [Db] Well, every time I turn around, it's [Bbm] something else to do.
It's cook a meal or mend a sock or [Db] sweep a floor or two.
[Bbm] Listening to Jimmy Young, it makes me want to spew
[Eb] because I was gonna be an engineer.
[Cm] [Db] I really wish that I [Bbm] could be a lady.
I could do [Db] the lovely things a [Db] lady's supposed to do.
I wouldn't even mind if only they would pay me.
Then I could be a person [Ab] too.
[Bbm] What price [Bbm] for a woman?
You could buy her with a ring [Fm] of gold.
To love [Db] and obey without any pay.
You get a cook and a nurse for better [Eb] or [Bbm] worse.
You don't need a [Eb] purse when the lady is sold.
[Ab] _ [Db] Now [Bbm] the times are harder and me [Db] Jimmy's got the sack.
Well, I went down to Vickers.
They were glad to have me back.
But I'm a third [Bbm] class citizen.
My wages tell me that [Eb] and I'm a first class [Ab] engineer.
[Db] My boss, he says, we pay you as a [Bbm] lady.
You only got the [Ebm] job because I can't afford a man.
[Db] With you, I keep the profits high as [Db] maybe.
You're just [Fm] a cheaper pair of hands.
[Bbm] You got one fault.
[Bbm] You're a woman not worth the [Fm] equal pay.
[Gbm] A bitch [Db] or a tart, you're nothing but hard.
[Gb] Shallow and [Bbm] vain.
You got no brain.
[Bbm] You even go down the drain [Ebm] like a lady today.
_ [Ab] _ Well, I listen [Bbm] to my mother and I join the piping pool.
I listen to my lover and I put him [Db] through a school.
But if I listen [Bbm] to the boss, well, then I'm just a bloody fool
[Eb] and an underpaid [Ab] engineer.
[Db] I've been a sucker ever since I was a [Bbm] baby.
As a daughter, as a wife, [Ebm] a mother and a dear.
[Db] But I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady.
I'll fight them as an engineer.
_ [E] _ [Bbm] _
_ [Db] _ _ _ Peggy Seeger, _ what a badass.
I'll see you next week. _ _ _ _
When I was a little girl, I wished I was a boy.
I tagged along behind the gang and wore my corduroys.
Everybody said I only did it to annoy, [Eb] but I was gonna be an [Ab] engineer. _
[Bbm] Mama told me, can't you be a lady?
[Db] Your duty is to [Ebm] make me the [Db] mother of a pearl.
Wait until you're older, dear, then maybe [Fm] you'll be glad that [Db] you're a girl.
Dainty as a [Bbm] dressing statue, gentle as a [Fm] jersey cow,
smooth as [Db] silk gives creamy [Gb] milk.
Learn to [Bbm] cool, learn to move.
That's what you do to be a [Ebm] lady now.
_ [C] [Db] When [Bbm] I went to school, I learned to write and how to read.
Some history, geography, and home [Db] economy.
And typing is a skill that every girl is sure to need.
To while [Bbm] away the extra time until [Db] the time to breathe.
And then [Bbm] they had the nerve to say, what would you like to be?
I says, I'm gonna [Ab] be an engineer.
[Cm] [Db] No, you only need to learn [Eb] to be a lady.
[Bbm] The duty isn't yours for to try [Ab] and run the [Db] world.
An engineer could never have a baby.
Remember, dear, that you're a [Bbm] girl.
She's smart for a woman.
I wonder how she got [Fm] that way.
[Gbm] You get no choice.
[Db] You get no voice.
Just [Bbm] stay mum, [Ab] pretend you're dumb.
[Bbm] And that's how you come [Eb] to be a lady today.
_ [Ab] _ [Db] Jimmy [Bbm] came along and we set up [Db] a congregation.
We were busy every night with love and recreation.
Spent [Bbm] the day at work so he could get his education.
[Eb] Now he's an [Ab] engineer.
[Db] He says, [Eb] I know you'll always be a [Db] lady.
It's the duty of my [Ab] darling to love [Db] me all her life.
Could an engineer look after or obey me?
Remember, dear, that you're my wife.
[Bb] _ [Bbm] _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _
[Db] As soon [Bbm] as Jimmy got a job, then I [Db] began again.
Happy at me to it late the year or so.
And then the morning [Bbm] that the twins were born,
and Jimmy says to them, kids, your mother [Ab] was an engineer.
[Db] Well, you owe it to the kids to be a [Bbm] lady.
Dainty as a [Ebm] dishrag, faithful as a [Db] chow.
Stay at home, you got to mind the [Db] baby.
Remember, you're a mother now.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] [Db] Well, every time I turn around, it's [Bbm] something else to do.
It's cook a meal or mend a sock or [Db] sweep a floor or two.
[Bbm] Listening to Jimmy Young, it makes me want to spew
[Eb] because I was gonna be an engineer.
[Cm] [Db] I really wish that I [Bbm] could be a lady.
I could do [Db] the lovely things a [Db] lady's supposed to do.
I wouldn't even mind if only they would pay me.
Then I could be a person [Ab] too.
[Bbm] What price [Bbm] for a woman?
You could buy her with a ring [Fm] of gold.
To love [Db] and obey without any pay.
You get a cook and a nurse for better [Eb] or [Bbm] worse.
You don't need a [Eb] purse when the lady is sold.
[Ab] _ [Db] Now [Bbm] the times are harder and me [Db] Jimmy's got the sack.
Well, I went down to Vickers.
They were glad to have me back.
But I'm a third [Bbm] class citizen.
My wages tell me that [Eb] and I'm a first class [Ab] engineer.
[Db] My boss, he says, we pay you as a [Bbm] lady.
You only got the [Ebm] job because I can't afford a man.
[Db] With you, I keep the profits high as [Db] maybe.
You're just [Fm] a cheaper pair of hands.
[Bbm] You got one fault.
[Bbm] You're a woman not worth the [Fm] equal pay.
[Gbm] A bitch [Db] or a tart, you're nothing but hard.
[Gb] Shallow and [Bbm] vain.
You got no brain.
[Bbm] You even go down the drain [Ebm] like a lady today.
_ [Ab] _ Well, I listen [Bbm] to my mother and I join the piping pool.
I listen to my lover and I put him [Db] through a school.
But if I listen [Bbm] to the boss, well, then I'm just a bloody fool
[Eb] and an underpaid [Ab] engineer.
[Db] I've been a sucker ever since I was a [Bbm] baby.
As a daughter, as a wife, [Ebm] a mother and a dear.
[Db] But I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady.
I'll fight them as an engineer.
_ [E] _ [Bbm] _
_ [Db] _ _ _ Peggy Seeger, _ what a badass.
I'll see you next week. _ _ _ _