Released: January 1, 1980
Songwriter: Melissa Manchester Bernie Taupin
Producer: Steve Buckingham
I work in the chorus doing three shows a night
Wearing fishnets and feathers under blinding white lights
I've served shorts to hard hats who had booze on their lips
Been fondled and leered at for an occasional tip
And it don't get no better, but it can't get no worse
For the working girl's world is the size of her purse
Chorus:
From Detroit to Des Moines it's the same ugly scene
I'm a cog; you're a wheel
He's a king; she's a queen
From the smokestacks to the meat racks
When you're eyelined and curled
There's a lot to be said for the working girl
Sweating for sweet water just to run through your hands
Six kids in Cleveland for one wedding band
Tied up to a mill loom for the minimum wage
A nest egg's a daydream that never gets laid
And it don't get no brighter, but it's clearer to see
There ain't no working girls like the ones on T.V
Repeat Chorus
Wearing fishnets and feathers under blinding white lights
I've served shorts to hard hats who had booze on their lips
Been fondled and leered at for an occasional tip
And it don't get no better, but it can't get no worse
For the working girl's world is the size of her purse
Chorus:
From Detroit to Des Moines it's the same ugly scene
I'm a cog; you're a wheel
He's a king; she's a queen
From the smokestacks to the meat racks
When you're eyelined and curled
There's a lot to be said for the working girl
Sweating for sweet water just to run through your hands
Six kids in Cleveland for one wedding band
Tied up to a mill loom for the minimum wage
A nest egg's a daydream that never gets laid
And it don't get no brighter, but it's clearer to see
There ain't no working girls like the ones on T.V
Repeat Chorus
more tracks from the album
From the album
- For The Working Girl (1980)
Melissa Manchester popular songs
- Don’t Cry Out Loud
- Through the Eyes of Love
- Bright Eyes
- When Paris Was A Woman
- Lovers After All
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- We’ve Got Time
- Through The Eyes Of Love (Theme From Ice Castles)
- Don’t Want A Heartache
- Please Come Home For Christmas
- Your Place Or Mine
- Fire In The Morning
- Midnight Blue
- La vie en rose
- Shine Like You Should
- Be Somebody
- If This Is Love
- O Heaven (How You’ve Changed Me)
- Walk on By
- The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
- Holdin’ On To The Lovin’
- Hey Ricky (You’re A Low Down Heel)
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- Stand Up Woman