WHERE DID YOU WORK LAST NIGHT

music Leadbelly © 1963 renewed, 
lyrics Annie Lanzillotto © 2010

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Girls Girls, Teenage Immigrants    

B7                           Em         

Tell me where did you work last night?

  Somebody tell me.  C’mon Rose! Sarah! Daisy!

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Washington and Greene, In the factory

B7                                  Em

Where the door kept locked by greed.

Em                     Am            G

O Girls Girls!  Teenage Immigrants

B7                                Em    

Tell me where did you go in the fire?

  Tessie!  Caterina! Antonietta!  Somebody tell me

E               Am    

I jumped to the street

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Where my bones and concrete meet.

B7                            Em    

The sewer, my blood runs through.

Em                     Am            G

Girls O! Girls!  Teenage Immigrants

B7                          Em                 

Tell me of your New York Dreams.

 Rosaria!  Celia!  Annie! Somebody Tell me!
E

Well I ran from poverty, persecution, misery.

We were starving, needed a buck,

Am

I got on the boat to try my luck.

G

Made it cross the sea! 

To the wave of Liberty!

E

Worked the Triangle Factory

Am

in the Garment Industry!

G                                    E    

Where amber waves of the flame caught me!

E                 Am

So I dove for the sky

Broken window promises

G

Spring air!

B7                               Em    

I prayed, “New York City!  Catch me!”

Em                     Am            G

Oh Girls Girls!  Teenage Immigrants

B7        Em

Tell me, how burning hot is greed?

 C’mon and tell me! Sadie! Lina! Josie! Margaret!

E                                Am

Well, our breath caught the fire,

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Hair and lace, the flames,

B7                 Em    

And Cinders! Became our names!