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I'm Gonna Be An Engineer - Pete Seeger
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
But I was gonna be an engineer

Mamma said Why can't you be a lady

Your duty is to make me the mother of a pearl
Wait until you're older dear
And maybe you'll be glad that you're a girl

When I went to school I learned to write
And how to read

History geography and home economy
And typing is a skill
That every girl is sure to need
To while away the extra time until the time to breed
And then they had the nerve to ask
What would I like to be
I says I'm gonna be an engineer

No you only need to learn to be a lady

The duty isn't yours for to try to run the world
An engineer could never have a baby

Remember dear that you're a girl

Well I started as a typist
But I studied on the sly
Working out the day and night so I could qualify
And every time the boss came in
He pinched me on the thigh
Said I've never had an engineer

You owe it to the job to be a lady
The duty of the staff is to give the boss a whirl
The wages that you make you crummy maybe
But it's all you get
'Cause you're a girl

Then Jimmy came along and we set up a conjugation
We were busy every night with loving recreation
I spent my days at work so he could get an education
And now he's an engineer

He said I know you'll always be a lady

The duty of my darling is to love me all her life
Could an engineer look after or obey me
Remember dear that you're my wife

Well As soon a Jimmy got a job I studied hard again
Then busy at me turret-lathe a year or two
And then
The morning that the twins were born
Jimmy says to them
Can't your mother was an engineer

You owe it to the kids to be a lady

Dainty as a dish-rag faithful as a chow
Stay at home you got to mind the baby
Remember you're a mother now
Every time I turn around there's something else to do
Cook a meal or mend a sock or sweep a floor or two
Listening to Jimmy Young
It makes me want to spew
I was gonna be an engineer

I only wish that I could be a lady
I'd do the lovely things that a lady's s'posed to do
I wouldn't even mind if only they would pay me
Then I could be a person too

Well I listened to my mother
And I joined a typing pool
Listened to my lover
And I put him through his school
If I listen to the boss I'm just a bloody fool
And an underpaid engineer

I been a sucker ever since I was a baby
As a daughter as a mother
As a lover as a dear
But I'll fight them as a woman not a lady
I'll fight them as an engineer

Sala every life forever
I'll fight bears an engineer