". . . no news, no new regrets
tossed a susan b. over my shoulder
and prayed it would rain and rain . . . "

Sunken Waltz
by Calexico

Three coins in the fountain
Each one seeking happiness
(Thrown by three hopeful lovers)
(Which one will the fountain bless?)

Three hearts in the fountain
Each heart longing for its home
(There they lie in the fountain)
(Somewhere in the heart of Rome)

Which one will the fountain bless?
Which one will the fountain bless?

Three coins in the fountain
Through the ripples how they shine
(Just one wish will be granted)
(One heart will wear a valentine)

Make it mine!
Make it mine!
Make it mine!

Every time it rains it rains
Pennies from heaven.
Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven.
You'll find yor fortune falling
All over town.
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down.
Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers.
If you want the things you love
You must have showers.
So when you hear it thunder
Don't run under a tree.
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me

"I got a pocketful of quarters and I'm headed to the arcade."

Pacman Fever - Buckner and Garcia.

Sheesh - I remember when arcade games only cost a quarter. Where did they all go?

Same place as penny candy

"Here's a quarter call someone who cares"

Travis Trit

very good song

Well you take a silver dollar,
take a silver dime,
mix it up together
In some alligator wine

Mr. Charlie by The Grateful Dead

God wants dollars
God wants cents
God wants pounds, shillings, and pence
God wants guilders
God wants Kroner
God wants Swiss francs
God wants French francs
God wants escudos
God wants pesetas
Don't send lira, God don't want small potatoes

What God Wants Part II By Roger Waters
Obviously, a song from the pre euro days!! The most coin references in one song that I know of.

All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars
And I could pay you back with one good hand

Loser by Jerry Garcia

Operator
You can forget about this call
No one there I really wanted to talk to
Thank you for your time
Oh, you've been so much more than kind
You can keep the dime

Jim Croce

I got a spring in my footstep - hot dog, I'm looking all right!
I got a burning feeling
Way down in my pocket tonight
Shakin' in my pants like thunder
Don't they just sparkle and shine
Traveling everywhere I go cause I love, love love
Nickels & dimes.

Some, they like folded money
Clipped tight like their fat neckties
Quarters they can take to the laundry
But I think they're just a bit outsized
Oooh, I gotta stick my hand down
I gotta touch them from time to time
Coolest little things I know, and I love, love, love
nickels and dimes.

Shiny as a red-hot coal
Smooth as a riverbed stone
My gal, she clutches a roll
Until I get her back home
Then she gives me five-cent kisses
Mmmm, and I like that kind
I can get a whole lot more
Cause I love, love love
Nickels and dimes.

(I Love) Nickels & Dimes - Robbie Fulks

I'm comin' over
see me down at the station by the lane
with my hands in my pocket
jingling a wish coin
that I stole from a fountain...

Go It Alone - Beck

Mad as a hatter, you're thin as a dime...

Diamonds & Gold - Tom Waits

Smellin like a brewery
lookin like a tramp
ain't got a quarter
got a postage stamp


Pasties & A G-String - Tom Waits

Now if his momma is a quarter, daughter must be a dime...

Whole World - OutKast

... and she's taking her time as she's tossing a dime
at the man in the cardboard coffin
It doesn't have to be fine, she's ahead of the line...

Sick Day - Fountains of Wayne

They'll lock you in a cage without a goodbye
for a nickle bribe

I Summon You - Spoon

And I've got one more silver dollar, but I'm not gonna let them catch me...

Midnight Rider - Allman Brothers

... and if I had a nickel for each time that I've been put on
I would be their nickel man and I'd sing a little song.


The Nickel Song - Melanie

Clean shirt, new shoes
And I dont know where I am goin to.
Silk suit, black tie,
I dont need a reason why.
They come runnin just as fast as they can
Coz every girl crazy bout a Eighteen-Ninety-Four S dime.

- ZZ Top

... Spend his very last dime tryin to hold on to what he needs


When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge

So true.

From Mary Poppins

Early each day to the steps of Saint Paul's
The little old bird woman comes.
In her own special way to the people she calls,
"Come, buy my bags full of crumbs.
Come feed the little birds, show them you care
And you'll be glad if you do.
Their young ones are hungry,
Their nests are so bare;
All it takes is tuppence from you."
Feed the birds, tuppence a bag,
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag.
"Feed the birds," that's what she cries,
While overhead, her birds fill the skies.
All around the cathedral the saints and apostles
Look down as she sells her wares.
Although you can't see it, you know they are smiling
Each time someone shows that he cares.
Though her words are simple and few,
Listen, listen, she's calling to you:
"Feed the birds, tuppence a bag,
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag."

children's nursery rhyme

Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?
The king was in his counting house counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey
The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!

'Round and 'round the cobbler's bench
The monkey chased the weasel,
The monkey thought 'twas all in fun
Pop! Goes the weasel.

A penny for a spool of thread
A penny for a needle,
That's the way the money goes,
Pop! Goes the weasel.

A half a pound of tupenny rice,
A half a pound of treacle.
Mix it up and make it nice,
Pop! Goes the weasel.

Up and down the London road,
In and out of the Eagle,
That's the way the money goes,
Pop! Goes the weasel.

I've no time to plead and pine,
I've no time to wheedle,
Kiss me quick and then I'm gone
Pop! Goes the weasel.

Elvis Costello - Any King’s Shilling Lyrics

You’re a fine one, oh yes you are
You’re a fine one just like me
And we’re friends now, oh wouldn’t you say?
We’ve been friends now, oh haven’t we?
Stay at home tonight if you know what’s good for you
I can’t say more it would be telling
For if you don’t what will become of you
Just isn’t worth any king’s shilling

I will answer when they make that call, pull upon this ragged uniform
Up ‘til now I know it’s been your trade
Spit and polish the potato parade
Stay at home tonight if you know what’s good for you
I can’t say more it would be telling
For if you don’t what will become of you
Just isn’t worth any king’s shilling

Please don’t put your silly head in that pretty soldier’s hat
You’ve done your duty, that’s enough of that

I don’t know if what I’m doing is right
I don’t know if you should be forgiving
But for me it seems it means my life
While for you it could just be a living
Stay at home tonight if you know what’s good for you
I can’t say more it would be telling
For if you don’t what will become of you
Just isn’t worth any king’s shilling

Please don’t put your silly head in that British soldier’s hat
You’ve done your duty that’s enough of that

You’re a fine one, oh yes you are
You’re a fine one, just like me

Traditional Folk Song

The King's Shilling

The King's Shilling

Oh my love has left me wi' bairnies twa
And that's the last o' him I ever saw
He's joined the army and he marched awa'
He took the shillin'
He took the shillin' and he marched awa'

Come laddies come, hear the cannons roar
Tak' the King's shilling an' we're off tae war

Oh he looked sae prood and sae gallant then
Wi' his kilt and sporran an' his musket gun
And the ladies kissed them as they marched awa'
And they sailed awa' boys
They sailed awa', boys, by the Broomielaw

The pipes they played as they marched along
And the men they sang oot a battle song
"March on, march on," cried our Captain gay
And for King and country
For King and country we will fight this day

The battle echoed tae the sound o' guns
And bayonets flashed in the morning sun
The drums did beat and the cannons roared
And the shillin' didn't seem
The shillin' didn't seem much worth no more

Some lost the battle their bodies fell
Cut doon by bayonets and musket ball
And many o' these brave young men
Would never fight for
Would never fight for their King again

Oh my love has left me wi' bairnies twa
And that's the last o' him I ever saw
He's joined the army and he marched awa'
He took the shillin'
He took the shillin' and he marched awa'

Mary Queen of Scots

Well stroll on
I think I'm getting into Scotia
Everybody knows the song
Flowers brave and Kings forever
Mary Queen of Scots danced
Round all the shops wearing
Hand me downs bought for
Half a crown.
It goes on.
Gown with a half a crown.
It goes on.
Mary Queen is lookin great.
It goes on.

Hold on. My song.

Well come on
I think I'll do the Fonda work-out
Everybody's is getting strong
They're going to have to
Drink the water
Mary Queen of Scots
Wasn't very hot in a wedding
Gown bought with half a crown
I need your everything, everything
To make it all worthwhile
While we wait Mary Queen
Is looking great.

Lancashire Lass

Here's to the maid in Lancashire Town
Here's to the maid in the cadelico
I vow and declare he loved her so dear
Cause she did wear pretty caps upon her hair

Fol the dol the day

Says Master unto Missus I'm going out of town
Says Missus unto Betsy, You go unto your bed
And I for your Master
Will wait up in your stead.

Twelve o'clock came and knock was at the door
Missus went out to see who was there
And on the cold ground he tumbled her down
And into her hand he put half a crown

Horses out in stable a making of a noise
Master went out to see who was there
Missus cropped upstairs and laughed at the fun
To think how the maid and the master was undone

Next morning at breakfast the bell she did ring
Saying here's half a crown that your master gave to me
And many a bright crown has he turned unto thee

She tooked her by the shoulders and led her to the door
Saying There's no home for a wife and a wench
For all this long time I never can endure
For I can't come in for a morsel of my share

And all that they done, they done in a month
And after that they turned bump to bump.

Fol the dol day

Now here is one that might strike a chord or two

Revolutionary Tea

There was an old lady lived over the sea
And she was an island queen
Her daughter lived off in a new country
With an ocean of water between
The old lady's pockets were full of gold
But never contented was she
So she called on her daughter to pay her a tax
Of three pence a pound on her tea
Of three pence a pound on her tea

"Now mother dear mother," the daughter replied,
"I shan't do the thing you ax.
I'm willing to pay a fair price for the tea,
But never the three-penny tax."
"You shall," quoth the mother, and reddened with rage,
"For you're my own daughter, you see,
And sure 'tis quite proper the daughter should pay
Her mother a tax on her tea,
Her mother a tax on her tea."

And so the old lady her servant called up
And packed off a budget of tea;
And eager for three pence a pound, she put in
Enough for a large familie.
She ordered her servants to bring home the tax,
Declaring her child should obey,
Or old as she was, and almost woman grown,
She'd half whip her life away,
She'd half whip her life away.

The tea was conveyed to the daughter's door,
All down by the ocean's side;
And the bouncing girl pour'd out every pound
In the dark and boiling tide;
And then she called out to the Island Queen,
"Oh, mother, dear mother," quoth she,
"Your tea you may have when 'tis steep'd quite enough
But never a tax from me
But never a tax from me

GOLF GIRL (Caravan)
Words and Music
by Richard Sinclair



Standing on a golf course
Dressed in P.V.C.
I chanced upon a Golf Girl
Selling cups of tea
She asked me did I want one
Asked me with a grin
For three pence you can buy one
Full right to the brim

So of course I had to have one
In fact I ordered three
So I could watch the Golf Girl
Could see she fancied me
And later on the golf course
After drinking tea
It started raining golf balls
And she protected me

Her name was Pat
And we sat under a tree
She kissed me
We go for walks
In fine weather
All together
On the golf course
We talk in morse

Here's one my mother used to sing at all family parties.

Mrs. McNally

I took Mrs. McNally to a fancy ball
The ticket I bought cost two and six, I thought that would be all.
But when she asked for supper, you could have knocked me down,
for all the money I had in the world was only half-a-crown.

She'd an oyster raw, a lobster claw, a turkey's leg and breast.
Ham and tongue, for a girl so young, she laid across her chest,
Mutton and beef, beyond belief, a half hogs head went down,
Well I nearly died when she asked for more, for I'd only a half-a-crown.

Now this woman was a settler. She almost drove me mad.
She said "George dear, would you buy me a drink, for my appetite is bad".
Now underneath her overcoat, she must have had a tank
or a second handed brewery, for this is what she drank.

She'd a bottle of Bass and a good stiff glass of brandy to begin
An awful lot of whiskey hot and a dose of rum and gin.
Guinness and stout she poured about, a hogshead halfway down.
I fell to the floor when she asked for more, for I'd only a half-a-crown.

The people stared, the waiter glared to see her shift such stuff.
When she said" George take me home, I think I've had enough."
I gave the waiter my half-a-crown and said "I'll owe the rest."
Then he altered the size of my two eyes and jumped upon my chest.

He gave me a kick in the small of my back, and shook me into fits.
He tore my clothes and broke my nose, and smashed me up in bits
I was hammered and licked, bruised and kicked and chased all over town
I was all swelled up like a poisened pup and I lost my half-a-crown.

Money, Money, Money -- ABBA

I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay
Aint it sad
And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me
Thats too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldnt have to work at all, Id fool around and have a ball...

Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich mans world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich mans world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
Its a rich mans world
...

I love rock n' roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
I love rock n' roll
So come an' take your time an' dance with me.

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.

This is probably the most well known coin reference in song in all of the United States.

Shave and a haircut...TWO BITS!!!!!

"...A penny for your thoughts
a nickel for a kiss --
a dime if you tell me
that you love me..."

Tavares

More like ZZ Deadpoint

Oh man, you've been crackin' on me more than usual today. If I were motivated enough, I'd retaliate.

Just about a year ago
I set out on the road
Seekin' my fame and fortune
Lookin' for a pot of gold
Thing got bad, things got worse
I guess you will know the tune
Oh ! Lord, Stuck in Lodi again

Rode in on the Greyhound
I'll be walkin' out if I go
I was just passin' through
Must be seven seven months or more
Ran out of time and money
Looks like they took my friends
Oh ! Lord, I'm stuck in Lodi again

The man from the magazine
Said I was on my way
Somewhere I lost connections
Ran out of songs to play
I came into town, a one night stand
Looks like my plans fell through
Oh ! Lord, Stuck in Lodi again

If I only had a dollar
For every song I've sung
And every time I had to play
While people sat there drunk
You know, I'd catch the next train
Back to where I live
Oh ! Lord, I'm stuck in a Lodi again
Oh ! Lord, I'm stuck in a Lodi again


Lodi
Written by John Fogerty
Performed originally by Creedence Clearwater Revival
One of the most popular songs CCR ever recorded and performed that never charted in the Top 40..it was the "B" side of the single "Bad Moon Rising" and peaked at #52 on the Hot 100 singles chart
The song was released in 1969 on the "Green River" album

He's obviously taking about an Ike or maybe an SBA.......

"In the early morning rain, with a dollar in my hand."

Gordon Lightfoot-Early Morning rain.

I was waiting to post that because I figured one of our Canadian Coinpeeps would've done it. For shame!! For shame!!

I might be a Canadian, but it hasn't been a year yet, but you're right. I sell music books to retailers all day long and I should know all of the Gordon Lightfoot/Neil Young/etc. by now!

Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell

I've been walkin' these streets so long
Singin' the same old song
I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway
Where hustle's the name of the game
And nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain
There's been a load of compromisin'
On the road to my horizon
But I'm gonna be where the lights are shinin' on me

Like a rhinestone cowboy
Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo
Like a rhinestone cowboy
Getting cards and letters from people I don't even know
And offers comin' over the phone

Well, I really don't mind the rain
And a smile can hide all the pain
But you're down when you're ridin' the train that's takin' the long way
And I dream of the things I'll do
With a subway token and a dollar tucked inside my shoe
There'll be a load of compromisin'
On the road to my horizon
But I'm gonna be where the lights are shinin' on me

Like a rhinestone cowboy
Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo
Rhinestone cowboy
Gettin' cards and letters from people I don't even know
And offers comin' over the phone

Like a rhinestone cowboy
Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo

FADE
Like a rhinestone cowboy
Gettin' card and letters from people I don't even know

Sylvia's mother By Dr Hook & the Medicine Show

Sylvia's mother says, Sylvia's busy
Too busy to come to the phone
Sylvia's mother says, Sylvia's tryin'
To start a new life of her own
Sylvia's mother says, Sylvia's happy
So why don't you leave her alone

And the operator says, 40 cents more
For the next 3 minutes
Ple-ease Mrs Avery, I just gotta talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs Avery, I just wanna tell 'er goodbye

Sylvia's mother says, Sylvia's packin'
She's gonna be leavin' today
Sylvia's mother says, Sylvia's marryin'
A fella down Galveston way
Sylvia's mother says, please don't say nothin'
To make her start cryin' and stay

And the operator says, 40 cents more
For the next 3 minutes
Ple-ease Mrs Avery, I just gotta talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs Avery, I just wanna tell 'er goodbye

Sylvia's mother says, Sylvia's hurryin'
She's catchin' the nine o'clock train
Sylvia's mother says, take your umbrella
'Cause Sylvia, it's startin' to rain
And Sylvia's mother says, thank you for callin'
And, sir, won't you call back again

And the operator says, 40 cents more
For the next 3 minutes
Ple-ease Mrs Avery, I just gotta talk to her
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs Avery, I just wanna tell 'er goodbye

Tell her goodbye
Please
Tell her goodbye

Get me to the train on time here take this nickel make a dime
Take this penny and make it into a necklace when I leave

REM--- Auctioneer (Another Engine)

!!!!!!! Speak of missing persons. . . . !!!!!!!

Jess! Long time no see.

Well get that! Abish has returned.