[filk] Re: Welding chicks, and Trades filks...

Please pass it on to anyone you might think would enjoy it - just stick my email on the bottom in case they wanna give some feedback. Feedback is good. *G*

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I am a Filker,
I have inside me blood of Bards...

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From: filk-bounce at dragoncat.net [mailto:filk-bounce at dragoncat.net]On Behalf Of Dixon, Steven E
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 5:55 AM To: 'filk at dragoncat.net'
Subject: [filk] Re: Welding chicks, and Trades filks... Good one! I've worked with some women in the shop here at Boeing who would really like this.

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From: Shaddyr [mailto:shaddyr at telus.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 4:17 PM To: filk at dragoncat.net
Subject: [filk] Welding chicks, and Trades filks...

Yes, AAMOF, I did see Flashdance many years ago. I remember liking it, but it grows hazy with time. And funny you should mention it, since welding is the trade that I am interested in. Heh. There was an amusing line scrawled in soapstone in one of the gas welding cubicles in the welding shop - "Welding Chicks like it HOTTER". We all got a good giggle out of that.

As for the filks, I'm working on three - "Journey(ed) Girls" TTTO "Uptown Girl", "Tradeswoman" TTTO "Matchmaker" from Fiddler, and "Women in Trades" TTTO Y.M.C.A. (Might end up W.I.T instead - or even B.C.I.T. after the name of the institute)

Here's the first one as it's the only one that is finished.

"Journey(ed) Girls"
TTTO "Uptown Girl"

Journey(ed) girls
We are living in a tradesmen's world
So we really need to
Show those guys
That excluding us just isn't wise,
It's no surprise

Journey(ed) girls
With a baseball cap to
Hold back curls
With our steel toed boots and
Coveralls
Don safety glasses as the foreman calls
Let's go to work

And when we walk
In the shop
And pick up our tools
The guys all stare,
We don't care
That we broke their rules

Just watch us use the lathe,
Weld or drill,
(then we bathe!)

Cuz we're
Journey(ed) girls
Don't need to stink or scratch
Or act like churls
To prove that we belong
And we deserve
A chance to show our worth, our skills, our verve And we've got nerve!

(chorus)

Cuz we're Journey(ed) girls
(We're Journey(ed) gi-ir-irls)
(repeat and fade)
Received on 10/11/01