Working movie - Cleanin' Women lyrics

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Mama worked just like her mama before her, <br>

Domestic workin' was their trade.<br>

They was laundress, cook, and live in help, <br>

Thursday girl, babysitter, and a hotel maid;<br>

They worked six days a week, all day long<br>

Never could get out of debt.<br>

Those were the days when the minimum wage was Anything you could get!<br>

They was Cleaning Women without faces<br>

Coming and going on a first name basis.<br>

You're talkin' to somebody who knows... and after too many years... Lord!<br>

I dont' wanna be in one more laundry room; <br>

I don't wanna pick up now another broom,<br>

One of these days, just wanna sleep til noon!<br>

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Cleanin' Women without faces<br>

Comin' and going on a first name basis (ooo)<br>

Ooo, y'talkin' to somebody who knows (somebody who knows)<br>

And after too many years...<br>

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Lord! I don't wanna be in one more laundry room! <br>

I don't wanna pick up now another broom,<br>

One of these days, (one of these days) Just wanna sleep til noon!<br>

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(ooo) All day long I'm thinkin', my kids is in the streets stomewhere,<br>

But the lady of the house don't think you thinkin' half the time.<br>

(aahh) Always talkin' round you, like you ain't even there.<br>

It's gettin' so it does somethin' to my mind!<br>

(Cleanin' Women! Cleanin' Women! -- oo, oo)<br>

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I've got a daughter with a head on her shoulders, <br>

Purdy as a picture too! (pretty baby!)<br>

(ooo)She ain't gonna hide that purdy face behind <br>

(aahh) Kitchen doors, scrubbin' floors like her Mama do,<br>

If my legs don't give out and my back hold up, <br>

I'm gonna make her a better day; (better and better)<br>

You'll never see her gettin' down on her knees, <br>

Unless she's down there to pray! No more...<br>

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Cleanin' Women, without faces<br>

Sh'gonna walk in-a on this last name basis! (oo, whooo!)<br>

She'll be the first in this family (this family)<br>

To have a face you can see! (no!)<br>

She ain't gon' be stuck inside no laundry room (no, no, no!)<br>

When she sweepin' she be pushin' her own broom (oh, oh-ho!)<br>

Day may never come when she can sleep til noon,<br>

But long as she can get up singin' her own tune<br>

Only that day (lo, that day)<br>

Can't come to soon!<br>

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Cleanin' Women!<br>

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