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