《I’m Gonna Be An Engineer》歌词

[00:00:01] I'm Gonna Be An Engineer - Pete Seeger

[00:00:03] When I was a little girl I wished I was a boy

[00:00:06] I tagged along behind the gang and wore my corduroys

[00:00:10] Everybody said I only did it to annoy

[00:00:12] But I was gonna be an engineer

[00:00:16] Mamma said Why can't you be a lady

[00:00:19] Your duty is to make me the mother of a pearl

[00:00:22] Wait until you're older dear

[00:00:23] And maybe you'll be glad that you're a girl

[00:00:30] When I went to school I learned to write

[00:00:31] And how to read

[00:00:33] History geography and home economy

[00:00:36] And typing is a skill

[00:00:37] That every girl is sure to need

[00:00:39] To while away the extra time until the time to breed

[00:00:42] And then they had the nerve to ask

[00:00:43] What would I like to be

[00:00:44] I says I'm gonna be an engineer

[00:00:47] No you only need to learn to be a lady

[00:00:51] The duty isn't yours for to try to run the world

[00:00:54] An engineer could never have a baby

[00:00:57] Remember dear that you're a girl

[00:01:01] Well I started as a typist

[00:01:02] But I studied on the sly

[00:01:04] Working out the day and night so I could qualify

[00:01:07] And every time the boss came in

[00:01:09] He pinched me on the thigh

[00:01:10] Said I've never had an engineer

[00:01:13] You owe it to the job to be a lady

[00:01:16] The duty of the staff is to give the boss a whirl

[00:01:19] The wages that you make you crummy maybe

[00:01:21] But it's all you get

[00:01:22] 'Cause you're a girl

[00:01:26] Then Jimmy came along and we set up a conjugation

[00:01:29] We were busy every night with loving recreation

[00:01:32] I spent my days at work so he could get an education

[00:01:35] And now he's an engineer

[00:01:38] He said I know you'll always be a lady

[00:01:41] The duty of my darling is to love me all her life

[00:01:44] Could an engineer look after or obey me

[00:01:47] Remember dear that you're my wife

[00:01:51] Well As soon a Jimmy got a job I studied hard again

[00:01:54] Then busy at me turret-lathe a year or two

[00:01:56] And then

[00:01:57] The morning that the twins were born

[00:01:59] Jimmy says to them

[00:02:00] Can't your mother was an engineer

[00:02:03] You owe it to the kids to be a lady

[00:02:06] Dainty as a dish-rag faithful as a chow

[00:02:09] Stay at home you got to mind the baby

[00:02:12] Remember you're a mother now

[00:02:14] Every time I turn around there's something else to do

[00:02:17] Cook a meal or mend a sock or sweep a floor or two

[00:02:20] Listening to Jimmy Young

[00:02:21] It makes me want to spew

[00:02:23] I was gonna be an engineer

[00:02:26] I only wish that I could be a lady

[00:02:29] I'd do the lovely things that a lady's s'posed to do

[00:02:31] I wouldn't even mind if only they would pay me

[00:02:34] Then I could be a person too

[00:02:39] Well I listened to my mother

[00:02:40] And I joined a typing pool

[00:02:42] Listened to my lover

[00:02:43] And I put him through his school

[00:02:45] If I listen to the boss I'm just a bloody fool

[00:02:48] And an underpaid engineer

[00:02:50] I been a sucker ever since I was a baby

[00:02:53] As a daughter as a mother

[00:02:55] As a lover as a dear

[00:02:56] But I'll fight them as a woman not a lady

[00:02:59] I'll fight them as an engineer

[00:03:02] Sala every life forever

[00:03:05] I'll fight bears an engineer