[Verse 1]
Em Am
Well that man over there says women
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need to be helped into carriages
and lifted over ditches
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and to have the best place everywhere
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Well nobody ever helped me into carriages or over mud puddles,
Am Em
or give me any best place
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and ain't I a woman? (ain't I a woman?)
Em Am
Look at me, look at my arms
[Verse 2]
Em Am
I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns
and no man could head me
Em Am Em Am
and ain't I a woman? (ain't I a woman?)
[Verse 3]
Em Am
I could work as much, and eat as much as a man
when I could get it
Em Am
and bear the lash as well
Em Am Em Am
and now ain't I a woman? (ain't I a woman?)
[Verse 4]
Em Am
I've borne five children seen most all of them
sold off into slavery
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and when I cried out with a mother's grief
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none but Jesus heard me
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none but Jesus heard me
Em Am Em Am
and ain't I a woman? (ain't I a woman?)
[Verse 5]
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And that man says
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that women can't have as much rights as a man
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cause Christ wasn't a woman
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cause Christ wasn't a woman
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where did your Christ come from?
Em Am Em
where did your Christ come from?
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from God and a woman
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from God and a woman
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man had nothing to do with him.