The Four Pennies
Traditional song; released as a single with "You Went Away" as the B-side
3/4 time
Intro:
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Black
Verse:
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girl, black girl, tell me no
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lies, Where did you sleep last
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night? In the pines, in the
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pines, where Sun never shines, She
the
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shivered the whole night through.
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Her
Verse:
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hus - band was a rail - road-
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man, Killed at the dri - ving
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wheel. She found his
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bo- dy all crushed and torn
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Un - der the twis - ted steel.
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It
Verse:
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caused her to weep, it caused her to
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moan, It caused her to lose her
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mind, When thought of
she
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how she lost her man, So
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brave, so gen - tle and kind.
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Verse (solo):
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Now she
Verse:
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wan - ders a- lone be- neath the
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trees, And hap - py to mourn her
she's
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man. And the cold wind
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comes to chill her bones, and the
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sea mist hangs o - ver her head.
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Black
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girl, black girl, where will you
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go? She goes where the cold winds
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blow. In the pines, in the
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pines, where Sun never shines, She
the
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shivered the whole night through.
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Black
Verse:
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girl, black girl, where will you
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go? She goes where the cold winds
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blow. In the pines, in the
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pines, where Sun never shines, She
the
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shivered the whole night
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through.
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