Key: G
Introduction:
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When I was a little girl, I wished I was a boy.
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I tagged along behind the gang and wore me corduroys.
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Ev'rybody said I only did it to annoy,
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but I was gonna be an engineer.
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Mama told me, "Can't you be a la - dy?
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Your duty is to make me the mother of a pearl.
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Wait until you're older, dear, and may - be
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you'll be glad that you're a girl."
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Dainty as a Dresden statue,
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gentle as a Jersey cow-
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Smooth as silk, gives creamy milk.
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Learn to coo. Learn to moo.
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That's what to do to be a lady now.
When I went to school, I learned to write and how to read,
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I listened to my mother and I joined a typing pool
I listened to my lover and I put him through his school