it makes no difference if you re rich or poor or if you re smart or dumb a woman s place in this old world is under some man s thumb and if you re born a woman you re born to be hurt you re born to be stepped on lied to cheated on and treated like dirt ah if you re born a woman you re born to be hurt a woman s lot is to give and give and go on givin a woman s got to love and lose and go on livin well i was born a woman i didn t have no say and when my man finally comes home he makes me glad it happened that way because to be his woman no price is too great to pay yes i was born a woman i m glad it happened that way oh i was born a woman