Women Can Be

Women Can Be is a Sesame Street song sung by a bunch of female Muppets about how women can have whatever careers and ambitions they want.

Lyrics
All: Women can fly way up high up on trapezes.

Betty Lou: Women can be roller skaters.

All: Women can help to find cures for diseases.

Old Lady: Women can hunt alligators.

All: Pilots and poets, policewomen too. Look at the things that we women can do.

Betty Lou: We can be clowns.

Blonde Bob Muppet: We can be cooks.

Orange Woman: We can be bus drivers.

Teresa: We can write books.

All: Just look around you, it's easy to see, there's nothing we women can be.

Curly Hair Lady: Sing it like it is, Teresa.

Teresa: I used to be good with a needle and thread.

I'd sew dainty dresses of blue.

Then I got an urging to be a great surgeon and now I sew people up too.

All: Then she got an urging to be a great surgeon and now she sews people up too.

Blonde Bob Muppet: Margaret, tell them about the cat.

Margaret: Once, I had a cat that I tried to teach tricks.

A quiet and sweet little thing.

But the tricks I was tryin' required a lion.

Everyone Else: A lion?!

Margaret: And that's why I'm here in this ring.

All: The tricks she was trying required a lion and that's why she's here in this ring.

Woman in Silver Dress: I used to go bicycling far from my home.

My mother would say, "Come back soon".

Everyone Else: Come back soon!

Woman in Silver Dress: I traveled so fast off the Earth in a blast off, now I'm on the way to the moon.

All: She traveled so fast off the Earth in a blast off, five, four, three, two, one, now she's on her way to the moon. To the moon!

Women can ride up inside of a rocket.

Old Lady: Women can be office clerkers.

All: Women can sew things like pillows and pockets.

Betty Lou: Women can be soda jerkers.

All: Pilots and poets, policewomen too. Look at the things that we women can do.

Betty Lou: We can be clowns.

Blonde Bob Muppet: We can be cooks.

Orange Women: We can be bus drivers.

Teresa: We can write books.

Curly Hair Lady: We can catch fish.

Margaret: We can train dogs.

Women in Silver Dress: We can climb mountains.

Old Lady: And we can chop logs.

All: Just look around you, it's easy to see, there's nothing we women can't be.