Comments on: Friday Five: Songs About Change

By: Lazeras

Lazeras — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:29:03 +0000

There was a song that had these lyrics in it

“I guess it’s true that love was all you wanted
cause you’ve given it away like it’s extra change
hoping it will end up in his pocket
but he leaves you out like a penny in the rain”

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:18:47 +0000

Redmon & Vale had a song called “If I Had A Nickel (One Thin Dime).”

Carrie Underwood’s “Just A Dream” has the line about “Two Pence In her Shoe…”

By: Steve Harvey

Steve Harvey — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:41:40 +0000

I would’ve included Gary Allan’s ‘I Got A Quarter In My Pocket’.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:32:45 +0000

I assume Monica Passin’s (ie Li’l Mo) great honky tonk song “Twice The Lovin’” was written awhile back. The dead giveaway is the lyric “I’m gonna buy me a one way ticket, they only cost a dime. I’m goin’ where I can get twice the lovin’ baby in half the time”. (lol) The reference to “A stitch in time saves nine” seems to confirm this as an older song as well…

By: Brady Vercher

Brady Vercher — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:45:53 +0000

Ain’t but three things in this world that’s worth a solitary dime…

The lines about change in “Strawberry Roan” always stood out to me as a kid.

Guy Clark has “Nickel for the Fiddler” and “Indian Head Penny.” There’s the title track, “Dollars and Dimes,” from Owen Temple’s latest. A few more:

Johnny Paycheck – “Down to My Last Dime”
Hawkshaw Hawkins – “Put a Nickel in the Jukebox”
Porter Wagoner – “One Dime for Wine”

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:13:52 +0000

I shudder to remember it, but Doug Stone’s “Addicted to a Dollar (That Ain’t Worth a Dime)”

By: Jim Malec

Jim Malec — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:48:06 +0000

This was written by Juli, not me.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:29:43 +0000

Waylon Jennings/Billy Joe Shaver: “Old Five & Dimers Like Me”

By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:22:03 +0000

Del Reeves – “One Dime At A Time”

Jimmie Rodgers – “Desert Blues” aka “Big Chief Buffalo Nickel” (Rick Nelson also recorded this song)

Larry Gatlin “Penny Annie”

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:53:33 +0000

How about Nanci Griffith’s “Love at the Five and Dime”? One of my favorite coin lyrics comes from the old bluegrass song “If I Lose” where it goes “If I lose a hundred dollars while I’m trying to win a dime, my baby she’s got money all the time!” (lol)