Am          Am7            F        E
High-school daydreams come easy and free
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When you're a working woman whatcha gonna be?
  Am        E       G           D
A senator a surgeon aim for the heights
        Dm                   E
but the guidance office says lower your sights to

CHORAS:
Am         Am7
fifty-nine cents for every man's dollar
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fifty-nine cents, it's a low-down deal
Am         Am7           D           E
fifty-nine cents makes a grown woman hollar:
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They give you a diploma it's your paycheck they steal

She's off to college, the elite kind
To polish her manners, sharpen her mind
Honors in English letter in lacrosse
Types her to type for her favorite boss at

CHORAS: [they give you a degree]

Junior executive on her way up
special assistant to the man at the top
she's one in a million and all she found
was her own secretary now to order around at

CHORAS: [they give you a title]

But the word is being processed in the typing pool
a working woman ain't nobotody's fool
She's telling the boss on Secretary's Day
You can keep your flowers, buddy, give me a raise, more than

CHORAS:
[Fifty nine cents for every man's dollar
Fifty-nine cents oh the deal has changed
Fifty-nine cents makes a grown woman hollar
You can keep your flowers, buddy, give us a raise]