chick singers by Dan Bern


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 kind of
   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 kind 
   of 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

chick singers
chick singers
chick singers

i started thinking ‘bout
kate bush patsy cline billie holiday
   janis joplin bessie smith patti smith
annie lennox 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 in 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 would 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 pj harvey i heard driving
   to the coast

chick singers
chick singers
chick singers

chick singers
chick singers
chick singers   
   
   

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