About This Song:
Song #45, “Penny In The Jar” (solo acoustic version recorded 4/23/17)
Lyrics:
Penny In The Jar
Song #45 | July 1980 | recorded solo acoustic 4/23/17
Sleepless and tied up in knots,
I come back to you again.
In the past I asked for love,
Now all I ask is some affection
If it’s something that can’t happen now
I’ll try to understand
I’ll try to laugh and put a penny in the jar
Laugh and put a penny in the jar…
Think of me as a lover,
Think of me as a friend.
Think of me in any way that you possibly can
And when I start to wonder if you think of me at all
I try to laugh and put a penny in the jar
I laugh and put a penny in the jar…
If distance is the only thing that keeps us feeling free
Then baby I don’t know if there’s any hope for me
‘Cause every day that passes puts a penny in my hand
And when the evening comes, I put it in the jar
I laugh and put a penny in the jar…
Bridge:
Laugh and put a penny…
Put a penny in the jar
Laugh and put a penny…
Put a penny in the jar
If there’s a reason for our being here it’s a reason that is lost
Only those who love know how much love really costs
Time and time and time and time and
Time and time again
We just laugh and put a penny in the jar
Laugh and put a penny in the jar…
In the middle of the pain
We learn again that we’re alive
The selves that we’d forgotten
Begin to be revived
And there amidst the losing,
the gathering begins
And we laugh and put a penny in the jar
Laugh and put a penny in the jar
Laugh and put a penny in the jar
Laugh and put a penny in the jar…
Copyright 1980-2017 by Mark Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.
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