79 Cents The Meow Song chords by Eilen Jewell

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: E MajorE

♫ Intro:

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♫ Verse 1:
E MajorE           E MajorE
Whether she's rich or toiling in a ditch
  E MajorE            B7B7
No matter the color of her collar
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The heart of your home works her fingers to the bone
  B7B7        E MajorE
For 79 cents to your dollar

♫ Chorus 1:
E MajorE     E MajorE     E MajorE   B7B7
79 cents, 79 cents, woah, oh
A augmentedA       E MajorE
Hey hey, it’s alright, it's okay
   B7B7        E MajorE
It's 79 cents to your dollar


♫ Verse 2:
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But if her skin is brown, her pay goes down
    E MajorE             B7B7
It’s a nickel to the white man's dime
  A augmentedA             E MajorE
But don't complain or they'll call you insane
B7B7            E MajorE
People call me "left-wing swine"


♫ Chorus 2:
E MajorE        E MajorE        E MajorE   B7B7
Left-wing swine, left-wing swine, woah, oh
A augmentedA       E MajorE
Hey hey, it’s alright, it's okay
   B7B7            E MajorE
Where people call me left-wing swine


♫ Verse 3:
  E MajorE       E MajorE
And don't forget
Mama gets less
     E MajorE        B7B7
It's the motherhood penalty
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With a baby on her hip, office phone against her lip
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For a raise she’ll never see

♫ Chorus 3:
    E MajorE         E MajorE     E MajorE   B7B7
She’ll never see, she'll never see, woah, oh
A augmentedA       E MajorE
Hey hey, it’s alright, it's okay
    B7B7         E MajorE
It's a raise she'll never see


♫ Verse 4:
 E MajorE            E MajorE
"Love it or leave it" ad nauseam is repeated
   E MajorE       B7B7
With fevered regurgitation
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It means "Bend over and take it if you don’t like it fake it
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For the sake of the male population"


♫ Chorus 4:
    E MajorE          E MajorE        E MajorE   B7B7
For the male population, the male population, woah, oh
A augmentedA       E MajorE
Hey hey, it’s alright, it's okay
     B7B7         E MajorE
It's the great the male population


♫ Verse 5:
  E MajorE              E MajorE
So ladies, think twice if Uncle Sam seems nice
  E MajorE           B7B7
You say he doesn't mean it now
  A augmentedA        E MajorE
But Mr. Status Quo, oh, don't you know
   B7B7            E MajorE
He's grabbing us right in the "meow"


♫ Chorus 5:
E MajorE          E MajorE          E MajorE   B7B7
Right in the "meow", right in the "meow", woah, oh
A augmentedA       E MajorE
Hey hey, it’s alright, it's okay
   B7B7            E MajorE
He's grabbing us right in the "meow"


♫ Outro:
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 A augmentedA   | E MajorE   | B7B7   | E MajorE  E6E6 :
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