The Penny Song

when I first start courting me honey

this likkle thing she'd always tell me

find a penny, you pick it up

all day long it will bring you luck

well at first I found it suspicious

that me gal should be so superstitious

me bawl, "woman I think you're mad,

no penny ever brought luck - good or bad", but she say

every day I find a penny

lord, every day it bring me luck

we were walking down the road one morning

on the street I spied something shining

when me bend down to pick it up, "ah look ya,

mojo penny come to bring me luck"

you see no girl like to be teased

so the next instant she give me the freeze

she say, "honey if you don't believe,

this time I pack up all me things and leave", oh she say

every day I find a penny

lord, every day it bring me luck

I can see how you might find it funny

a gal to quit her man over a penny

friends it's amusing, but it's true

for that's exactly what me girlfriend do

now for days I've sat sad and lonely

man of good luck I can't find any

all she left me was a piece of bread

a ball of string and the thing she said, wo yeah

lord, yeah

every day I find a penny

lord, every day it bring me luck

'til this afternoon on the street

I hear a tinkling at my feet

when I look down in front of me - what I see

lucky penny sent from heaven for me

as I cried my very last tear

the birds they sang, the sky became clear

and out of nowhere me gal appear, and she say

"here's a penny for your thoughts, my dear"

now my story has found a good end

me gal and me are happy again

you see, miracles sometimes happen

oh yes, but only when you let them in, now me say

every day I find a penny

lord, every day it bring me luck