Chords for Pete Seeger - I'm gonna be an engineer

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_ _ _ _ My younger sister Peggy, who was raised here in Washington, lives over in London now. _
_ She wrote an awful good song a few years ago.
I'm going to try and sing it.
I'm going to be an engineer.
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_ _ [Ab] When I was a little girl, I wished I was a boy
I tagged along behind [Eb] the gang in Warmacourt, Veroy
[Fm] Everybody said I [Ab] only did it to annoy
But [Bbm] I was going to be an engineer
_ [Ab] Mama said, why can't you be [F] a lady?
Your duty is to make me the mother of a pearl
[Ab] Wait until you're older, dear, and [Bbm] baby
[Bb] You'll [Ab] be glad that you're a girl
_ [Ab] _ _ Well, 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 said, [Bb] I'm going to be an engineer
[Bb] Oh 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 the baby _
[Abm] Remember, dear, that you're a girl
[Bbm] _ _ [Ab] _
_ I started as a typist, but I studied on the sly
[Bb] Working out the day and night so I could qualify
Every time the boss comes in, he pinched me on the thigh
Said, I never had an engineer
_ _ Oh, 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 are crummy, maybe
But it's all you get because you're a girl _ _
[Ab] _ Then Jimmy come along and we set up a conjugation
We were busy every [Bb] night with love and 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 [Bbm] lady
The duty of my darling is to love me all her life
Could an engineer look after or obey me?
Remember, [Bb] dear, that you're my wife _ _ _ _
Well, as soon as Jimmy got a job, I studied hard again
Then busy at my turret lathe a year or two, then
The morning that the twins were born, Jimmy says to them
Kids, your mother was an engineer
You owe it to the kids to be a [Bbm] lady
Dainty as a dishrag, faithful as a chow
[Ab] Stay at home, you've got to mind the [Dbm] baby
[Bm]
Remember, [Ab] you're a mother now
Every time I turn around, there's something else to do
Cook a meal, [F] mend a sock, sweep the floor or two
Listening [Ab] to Jimmy Young, it makes me want to [Fm] spew
I was gonna be an engineer
[Bb] _ I only wished that I could be a lady
Do the lovely things that a lady's supposed to do
I wouldn't even mind if only they would pay me
Then I could be a person too _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Then the times got harder and my Jimmy got the sack
_ I went down to Vickers, they were glad to [Bbm] have me back
_ I'm a third-class citizen, the waiters tell me that
But [Bb] I'm a first-class engineer
_ The boss is as a pay as a lady
You only got the job cause I can't afford a man
[Ab] With you I keep the profits [Dbm] high as [B] Navy
You're [Ab] just a cheaper pair [Bb] of hands
Well, I [Ab] listened to my mother and I joined a typing pool
[F] Listened to my lover and I put him through his school
[Ab] If I listen to the boss, I'm just a [Fm] bloody fool
[Bb] And an underpaid [Bbm] engineer
[Eb] I've been a sucker [Ab] ever since I was [Bbm] a baby
[Bb] As a daughter, as a mother, [Bbm] as a lover, as a dear
But I'll fight him as a woman, not a lady
[Ab] I'll fight him as an engineer _ _
_ Solidary worker
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