Penny

15 comments:

Sandra Dodd said...

Please put a penny in the old man's hat
If you haven't got a penny, a ha-penny will do...

"Christmas is Coming," a round

Sylvia said...

In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs of every head he's had the pleasure to have known

Penny Lane ~ The Beatles

Anonymous said...

penny lover don't you walk on by, penny lover don't you make me cry ..

- Penny Lover, Lionel Richie

Sandra Dodd said...

I haven't got a nickel
Not a penny can I show
Get off, get off, you railroad bum
And he slammed the boxcar door.

"Waiting for a Train," Jimmie Rodgers

Anonymous said...

They say Im Hopeless,
oo oo oo oo oo
as penny witta hole in it
penny witta penny witta penny witta hole yeah yeah

"hopeless"
from "love jones soundtrack"

Sandra Dodd said...

Now my advice to those who've died
Declare the pennies on your eyes

"Taxman," The Beatles
(there might be kids who don't know the old practice of putting coins on the eyes of the freshly dead, in home-burial days)

Sandra Dodd said...

Fine knacks for ladies,
Cheap, choice, brave and new
Full penny'sworth...

A lute song Peter Pears and Julian Bream did in the early 70's and Sting did last year

Shanona Ryder said...

so when you hear it thunder
don't run under a tree
there'll be pennies from heaven for you and me...

---Frank Sinatra

Deborah in IL said...

Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car
Penny a point, ain't no one keeping score

City of New Orleans
Steve Goodman

Meghan said...

And stirring the night love music played the light I saw in the night was a
penny arcade...

"Penny Arcade" --Roy Orbison

Bob Collier said...

Half a sixpence is better than half a penny is better than half a farthing is better than nothing at all.

Half A Sixpence, from the Tommy Steele musical of the same name.

Margaret said...

Jenny made her mind up when she was three
That she, herself, was going to trim the Christmas tree
Christmas Eve she lit a candle, threw the taper away
Little Jenny was an orphan on Christmas Day

Poor Jenny, bright as a penny
Her equal would be hard to find
Deserved a bed of roses, but history has showed us that she would make up her mind

-from a musical

Margaret said...

And so... I'm left without my Penny
The wolf was not smart
He left me my heart
And so
I cannot go for anything but de la belle
La perfectly swell romance
Never gonna dance
Only gonna love.... you
Never .. gonna... dance

"Never gonna dance", from a Fred & Ginger movie where Ginger Roger's character is named Penny. I think the song says both "left without a penny" and "left without my Penny" in different parts

Anonymous said...

And I love you like all little children love pennies, and I love you like good times of which i've known many...
"Like Red on a Rose" by Alan Jackson

Sandra Dodd said...

We be soldiers three
Pardonez-moi, je vous en pris
Lately come down from the north country
With never a penny of money

(traditional drinking song)