songs that mention coins

Started to think about songs that mention a coin in the lyrics, boy, I think we could come up with a few!

CCR/Down on the Corner

"Willy and the Poorboys are playin';
Bring a nickel; tap your feet."



What do you got?

 

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'3 coins in the fountain...' good Ole Blue Eyes...

 

"If Teardrops Were Pennies" - Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton
"Pennies from Heaven" - Bing Crosby
"Penny for a Thought" - Saul Williams
"Penny Lover" - Lionel Ritchie
"Penny on the Floor" - The Clarks

"Nickles and Dimes" - Dolly Parton
"Nickles and Dimes and Love" - Charley Pride

"Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" - Lots of different artists
"Dime" - Cake ("...I'm a dime, I'm fine And I shine I'm freshly minted. I'm silver-plated I'm underrated...")
"Dime, Quarter, Nickel, Penny" - Nappy Roots

"King of the Road" - Roger Miller ("...rooms to let 50 cents...") OK, I'm stretching on this one

BANDS/ARTISTS

Nickle & Dime
Nickleback
Nickle Creek
Mercury Dime (they have an album titled "Dime-O-Mite!")
Quarter Flash

 

Jethro Tull - We Used to Know

"remembering mornings, shillings spent..."

 

GOT THESE FOR YA GUYS............................I WAS BORED. LOL.



http://vorlon.case.edu/~cxl70/CCR - Down on the Corner.mp3
http://www.lushlifemusic.com/arrangements/audio/pennies.mp3
http://www.turadio.net/images/upload/LIONEL RICHIE - PENNY LOVER.mp3
http://wynfield.tony-bruno.org/sounds/Buddy.mp3
http://www.reelclassics.com/Audio_Video/Music7q/clips/sinatra_3coinsfountain_clip.mp3


OK OK I WAS BORED ITS 2:30 AM GIVE ME A BREAK. LOL!!!

 

Andy Scott - "Krugerrands" (1981)



YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6bOR3NP20A

 

To really stretch it PINK FLOYD, MONEY. It doesn't mention coins directly but you can hear coins rattling in a till at the start of the song

 

What about ABBA's 'It's a Rich Man's World'? That contains references to money in it as well.

Aidan.

 

Gratefuldead

Whafrat

"asked him for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee"

 

Beach Boys, 409

Well I saved my pennies and I saved my dimes
(giddy up giddy up 409)
For I knew there would be a time

 

"Here's A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)
By: Travis Tritt

 

Can't think of the song titles but know the artists and the lines.

"Just got paid today
Got me a pocket full of change" ZZ Top

"Got brass in the pocket" Pretenders

"Shilling for the man who brings the sheep in
shilling for the man who milks the herd" XTC

 

WOW !

A man after my own heart. Yep, that's "Just Got Paid" by Billy Gibbons and crew. I thought that one was buried forever... a personal favorite.

Here's an obscure one -

"I only got a nickel
got to score myself a dime
gotta make it to tomorrow
buy a little more time" - "Evil Woman", Doobie Brothers

 

good one!!!! thats one of my favs.

 

I seem to remember one about coins in a fountain.

John

 

I'm going to show my age on this one:

Pacman Fever - Buckner & Garcia

First line:
"Got a pocket full of quarters and I'm headed to the arcade."

 

Joni Mitchell/Big Yellow Taxi

"They took all the trees
Put em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see em"

 

Megadeth - "1000 Times GoodBye"

Let me put pennies on your eyes
And kiss your lips one last goodbye
My love 1000 times goodbye

 

"Operator" by Jim Croce - "You can keep the dime"

and then, to illustrate the effects of inflation...

"You Win Again" by Mary Chapin Carpenter -

"I’m standing here freezing at a phone booth baby
In the middle of God knows where
I got one quarter left your machine packs up
But baby I know you’re there"

I'm sure that there are other references to the use of coins in phone booths ("Daddy, what's a phone booth?") but those are the first two that come to mind.

 

Oh what the heck,

Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper.

That's a lot of presidential dollars!