Chick Singers

Dan Bern

Fifty Eggs

Well, this bald-headed girl I know
Sent me a tape of Bjork and Courtney Love
And P.J. Harvey, called it "Brilliant Women"
I put it in my car, heard it all the way down to the coast
Normally, if left to my own devices
I don't hear chick singers much, I guess it's guys I hear the most

Sometimes, these days, don't it seem like it's enough
For girls to love a girl or use the F-word prominently
Masturbate in public or learn guitar tied up to the post
I thought of all this, hearing Bjork and Courtney Love and P.J. Harvey in my car, driving to the coast

Tori Amos, Liz Phair, Sinead O'Connor
Suzanne Vega, Jill Sobule, Melissa Etheridge
Tracy Chapman, Ani Difranco, Michelle Shocked
Every one of them has something kinda special that I like
But every now and then, while listening to them
I feel like when we were kids, I pulled their hair or stole their bike

These days, it seems like there's a lot of girls who sing
And some of them are good
And some of them are not
But it's always kinda cool, that moment when they first step to the mike
If I was a girl, I could sing real high
And, also, then I'd know what having breasts would be like

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Chick singers
Chick singers

I started thinkin' 'bout Kate Bush, Patsy Kline, Billie Holiday
Janis Joplin, Bessie Smith, Patti Smith
Annie Lenox, Chrissie Hynde and Bonnie Raitt
Seems like there's an awful lot of women
In whose honor, I would like to raise my glass to give a toast
Some of them are still alive and some, I hear their voices like a ghost

Maybe next Thursday, I'll throw a party
And invite every woman that ever sang a song, oh
This'd be a party that I think I would like to be the host
Thanks to the bald-headed girl I know
Whose tape of Bjork and Courtney Love and P.J. Harvey I heard, driving to the coast

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