Bad Penny

       D
It all started when I kissed you

You smiled because you knew
           C
There was something set in motion
     G
Only currency could move
    D
You led me to an empty bench inside 
a public park
    C
You made me wait

You watched my watch
    G
And watched the sky go dark

  D
I looked around and got nervous

I heard a crying crow
      C                            
And a tiny circle rolled our way 
   G
and settled in the snow
    D
You pointed at that penny

And it pointed back at you
        C                          
And our great emancipator told 
  G
yours truly what to do

[Chorus 1]
                 D
He said, "We've all got money

We've all got time
           C
So, let's sell the house, sell the 
car
          G
Sell the deed to a copper mine
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          D
Maybe the rock of ages is just 
another stone
    C                        G
The tomb is empty, children:   leave
 this livin’ world alone."

[Verse 2]
  D
I grabbed your hand and hurried

Knew we didn't have much time
   C                               
We left the trail and ran like hell
    G
 to make it out alive
   D
We scurried under bushes like a 
field mouse from a snake
         C                       
I felt a tug upon my shirt sleeve 
        G
from a beggar at the gate

         D
He said, "Can you spare a nickle 
son, I'm down to my last two."
  C
I said that I was done with change
      G
So a dollar would have to do
         D
But when first I touched my wallet

Then I realized my mistake
    C                             
Our great emancipator's big green 
G
head began to shake

[Chorus 2]
                D
He said, "I'll see your penny and 
I’ll raise you ninety-nine
       C                        
Seems all your gods and prophets 
       G
never reached the welfare line
          D
Maybe the rock of ages is just 
another stone
    C                        G
The tomb is empty, children:    
leave this livin’ world alone."

[Verse 3]
  D
I tossed away that greenback and 
that beggar-man just laughed
  C                           G
I hailed a speeding taxicab before 
it hurried past
   D
He asked me, "Where to mister?"

Up to Sixth and Fifty-Third
  C
I looked at you, you looked at me
       G
And we didn't speak a word

          D
There was silence in the city

As we passed under the moon
         C                         
And that taxi-man starting 
           G
whistling some old antebellum tune
   D
He turned around to face us 'neath 
the lights of Broadway
         C
And that tall man in the tophat said
         G
"There's something I've got to say:

[Chorus 3]
        D
I don't want your money, just a 
minute of your time
        C
You can sell your house, sell your 
kids
          G
Sell your soul to the picket line
          D
Maybe the rock of ages is just 
another stone
    C                        G
The tomb is empty, children:    
leave this livin’ world alone."