79 Cents (The Meow Song) - Eilen Jewell

Whether she’s rich

Or toiling in a ditch

No matter the color of her collar

The heart of your home

Works her fingers to the bone

For 79 cents to your dollar

79 cents, 79 cents

Woah, oh

Hey hey, it’s alright it’s okay

It’s 79 cents to your dollar

But if her skin is brown

Her pay goes down

It’s a nickel to the white man’s dime

But don’t complain

Or they’ll call you insane

People call me «left-wing swine»

Left-wing swine, left-wing swine

Woah, oh

Hey hey, it’s alright it’s okay

Where people call me left-wing swine

And don’t forget

Mama gets less

It’s the motherhood penalty

With a baby on her hip

Office phone against her lip

For a raise she’ll never see

She’ll never see, she’ll never see

Woah, oh

Hey hey, it’s alright it’s okay

It’s a raise she’ll never see

«Love it or leave it»

Ad nauseam is repeated

With fevered regurgitation

It means «Bend over and take it

If you don’t like it fake it

For the sake of the male population»

For the male population, the male population

Woah, oh

Hey hey, it’s alright it’s okay

It’s the great the male population

So ladies, think twice

If Uncle Sams seems nice

You say he doesn’t mean it now

But Mr. Status Quo

Oh, don’t you know

He’s grabbing us right in the «meow»

Right in the «meow», right in the «meow»

Woah, oh

Hey hey, it’s alright it’s okay

He’s grabbing us right in the «meow»