Songs about Women Working
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(Read only, anymore; sorry.)
Short version of rules
Without using a search engine to find one, write down at least eight words of a song containing the word (or the topic, if it's a general topic).
If it's the newest word, play once, and wait for another player to play before you go again.
On older words, you can play over and over without waiting!
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I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar,
That much is true.
Don't You Want Me - Human League
Father's hunting in the forest
Mother's cooking in the home
I must go to fetch the water
'Til the day that I am grown
from Disney's "The Jungle Book"
It was the third of June
Another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out pickin' cotton
And my brother was baling hay
("Ode to Billy Joe")
She works hard for the money so you better treat her right
Donna Summer
She works, laying whiskey down.
They say, "Brandy, bring another round."
She serves them whiskey and wine.
--"Brandy, You're a Fine Girl"--I always cry when this comes on the oldies station! Unrequited love.
(Not sure if this counts as "working"...)
I was born in the wagon of a traveling show,
My mama used to dance for the money they'd throw.
Cher, "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves"
Her name was Lola
She was a showgirl
(8!) Barry Manilow, "Copa Cabana"
The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird,
And pecked off her nose.
Sing A Song of Sixpence - traditional nursery rhyme
As I sat down one evening
Was in a small cafe
A forty-year-old waitress
To me these words did say..
"The Frozen Logger"
My mother was a tailor
Sewed my new blue jeans
"House of the Rising Sun"
The Animals (among others)
I'm your private dancer,
A dancer for money
Private Dancer - Tina Turner
Feed the birds, tuppence a bag
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag
from the Mary Poppins movie
That one I just played wasn't very good, because it's not in the lyrics, I don't think, that it's a woman selling birdseed, so I disqualify me.
Well she lived in an aluminum house trailer
And she worked in a juke box saloon
The Great Compromise
John Prine
Blue jean baby, LA lady,
Seamstress for the band.
--"Tiny Dancer," Elton John
Ordinary daughters--
Which mine, I fear, is not--
Tend each asset, spend it wisely
While it still endures.
Mine--tours!
(Sondheim, from "A Little Night Music")
On the National Express,
There's a jolly hostess,
Selling crisps and tea
National Express - Divine Comedy
A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
"Penny Lane"
(I'm just piggy-backing on other people's ideas this week.)
Lovely Rita meter maid,
Nothing can come between us.
Lovely Rita, Meter Maid - The Beatles
(piggy-backing too :-)
She was a working girl
North of England way
"Honey Pie," Beatles
Out on the streets the traffic starts jumpin, and folks like me on the job from 9 to 5.
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
She's posing for consumer products now and then,
For every camera she gives the best she can,
I saw her on the cover of a magazine,
Now she's a big success, I want to meet her again.
The Model - Kraftwerk
Pearl's a singer,
She sings songs for the lost and the lonely,
Her job is entertaining folks,
Singing songs and telling jokes in a nightclub.
Pearl's A Singer - Elkie Brooks
Workin' nine to five,
What a way to make a livin'.
[I forget the next line or two]
It's all takin' and no givin'.
--"Nine to Five," movie theme song. The movie was about women workers in business, starred Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and someone else as the three main stars.
I can bring home the bacon
Fry it up in a pan
And never never never let you forget you're a man
'Cause I'm a Woman!
At work I just take time
And all through my coffee break-time
I say a little prayer for you
-Say a Little Prayer by Burt Bacharach, made magnificent by Dianne Warwick
Take a letter, Maria;
Address it to my wife.
--Don't know artist.
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