The Life Of A Dollar-Rebecca Lynn Howard

[ti:The Life Of A Dollar] [ar:Rebecca Lynn Howard] [al:No Rules] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Life Of A Dollar - Rebecca Lynn Howard [00:13.49]From the pocket of an honest preacher [00:16.80]To the empty hand of a homeless bum [00:20.46]To the cash drawer at the liquor store [00:23.61]Where he bought a pint of rum [00:27.08]To the bank clerk who past me off [00:30.45]To the single mom trying to pay the rent [00:33.77]I can't even count all the times [00:37.02]And all the ways I've been spent [00:40.31]I close my eyes and hold my breath [00:44.12]When the bad man steals me [00:46.15]And ruins my name [00:47.53]If I had my way I rather be [00:50.84]Passed off in the offering plate [00:55.38] [01:00.83]I've been in the hands of a rich man [01:04.15]In a shoebox under a farmer's bed [01:07.76]Help post the bail of a stubborn boy [01:10.99]Who could have walked but he fought instead [01:14.14]I've been torn in half over some silly bet [01:17.88]Taped back together and then they tossed me [01:21.27]In the case of a beggin' Cajun fiddler player [01:25.52]On Bourbon Street [01:28.06]Some people call me George [01:31.47]Some people worship the color green [01:34.84]But I don't really mind of course [01:37.20] [01:37.82]I just like the company [01:40.49] [01:41.39]'Cause I'm sure one day [01:43.19]I'll be a thing of the past [01:44.73]I'll be sitting folded up [01:46.44]In some old woman's hope chest [01:48.72]She'll be telling her grand kids [01:51.38]How she used to spend me [01:54.30] [01:54.92]On a pack of gum and krackerjacks [01:58.66]A can of Coke and a quarter snack [02:01.90]And she'll say [02:03.07]"back then you could get so much for a dollar" [02:07.85]And I'll say "what's a dollar " [02:11.66] [02:18.55]But for now I'm sitting in a piggybank [02:22.04]Of an eight year old trying to buy a bike [02:25.39]I'm proud to be a dollar twenty three [02:28.83]On the way to thirty five [02:31.91]She pours us out onto the carpet [02:35.46]Counts us all then she holds us tight [02:39.07]Then she puts us back in one by one [02:42.28]Blows a kiss then she says good night [02:45.44]And there ain't tellin' where I'll end up next [02:49.15]In a bra or a bible it's anybody's guess [02:52.83]Maybe in a bottle just floatin' in the water [02:56.37]Living the life of a dollar