The Ballad of Penny Evans (Steve Goodman) doesn't have its own thread, but the lyrics were submitted here and this thread appears to be the one from which they were harvested for the Digital Tradition.

I've come across a sequel by Roland Kushner

There is a recording of Steve Goodman singing Penny Evans followed by Roland Kushner singing Penny Evans Daughters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxNdYucXZ54

PENNY EVANS DAUGHTERS (Roland Kushner)

Penny Evans is my mother, also to my sister Mae
Our father died in Viet Nam at the dawn of a bright new day
His picture sits at home upon an old piano stool
With one of him beside my mother playing “Heart and Soul”

Our mother lived alone without a man to share her life
She felt the steady heartache of a nation wrought with strife
The lessons that she taught us, the lessons that we’ve learned
Are how a life of peace is never given, only earned

And as we grew to womanhood our lives went separate ways
I sought out quiet and comfort, while Mae found passion’s blaze
We learned our Daddy’s story that his memory not grow cold
And the three of us each Father’s Day will still play “Heart and Soul”

In Chicago and in New York, in Lake Charles and Bakersfield
So many women had to forge a mother’s bond in steel
The coming home was bitter for the soldiers who came home
More bitter still the ache and torment of the widows left alone

It’s a lesson, it’s a struggle, it’s an honor earned each year
The raising of a family, standing strong and fighting fears
Her reservoir of strong resolve, her courage, love, and faith
A widow’s path she’s walked and lived with charm and style and grace

We are Penny Evans’ daughters, it’s the dawning of our day
The war that claimed our father’s life may never fade away
Of their grandfather’s brave trial, how he went and was undone
Are the stories we now tell to our daughters and our sons