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Thread #79468 Message #1439689
Posted By: Mark Ross
21-Mar-05 - 10:51 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Fifteen Cents and a Dollar (Jack Elliott)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: fifteen cents is all the money i got
That's a verse from WAY DOWNTOWN, also known as, IT WAS LATE LAST NIGHT WHEN MY WILLIE COME HOME. It can be found in the OLD TIME SONGBOOK, formerly THE NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS SONGBOOK. The whole verse is;
15 cents is all I have,
A dollar is all I crave.
Brought nothing with me into this old world,
Gonna take nothing to my grave.
Mark Ross