Dan Bern Chick Singers lyrics

Well, this bald-headed girl I know

Sent me a tape of Bjork and Courtney Love

And PJ 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 a post

I thought of all this hearing Bjork and Courtney Love and PJ 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
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And, also, then

I’d know what having breasts would be like

Chick singers

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

And give a toast

Some of them are still alive

And some, I hear their voices like a ghost

Maybe this Thursday,

I’ll throw a party

And invite every woman

That ever sang a song

This would be a party

That I think I would like to be the host

Thanks to the bald-headed girl

Whose tape of Bjork and Courtney Love

And PJ Harvey

I heard driving to the coast

Chick singers

Chick singers

Chick singers