[Lyric] Fifty-Nine Cents (Fred Small)

[Verse 1]
High school daydreams come easy and free
When you're a working woman watcha gonna be?
A senator, a surgeon, aim for the heights
But the guidance office says lower your sights to

[Chorus]
Fifty-nine cents for every man's dollar
Fifty-nine cents, it's a low down deal
Fifty-nine cents makes a grown woman holler
They give you a diploma, it's your paycheck they steal

[Verse 2]
So it's off to college, the elite kind
To polish her manners, sharpen her mind
Honors in English, letter in lacrosse
Typеs her to type for her favoritе boss at

[Chorus]
Fifty-nine cents for every man's dollar
Fifty-nine cents, it's a low down deal
Fifty-nine cents makes a grown woman holler
They give you a degree, it's your paycheck they steal
[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus]
Fifty-nine cents for every man's dollar
Fifty-nine cents, it's a low down deal
Fifty-nine cents makes a grown woman holler
They give you a title, it's your paycheck they steal

[Verse 4]
But the word is being processed in the typing pool
A working woman ain't nobody's fool
She's telling the boss on Secretary's Day
You can keep your flowers buddy, give me a raise more than

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

[Outro]
You can keep your flowers buddy
Just give us
Better give us a raise