Trad. Arr-Youlden/Simmonds-Chrysalis Music Ltd
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My goodtime friends have put me down
I`m all alone in your town
You know I don`t have no place to go
The woman I love she don`t want me no more
I`m just trying to explain
I need a penny to call my baby
You don`t seem to understand
I need a penny to call my baby
You know she asked me to call her on the phone
She got the nerve to tell me she all alone
I`m just trying to explain
I need a penny to call my baby
I`m just trying to make you understand
I need a penny to call my baby
Now I don`t have no peace of mind
I`m just trying to seek what I can find
I`m just trying to explain
I need a penny to call my baby
Now I want to tell you when I wake up in the morning
And I find now baby I`m all by myself
I feel so disatisfied
When I go to work and I come home in the evening
And there ain`t nobody there
I feel so disatisfied
Oh give me a penny baby, give me a penny baby
My wife, now my wife she left me
Give me a penny
Give me a penny