Songs With Coin References

A MAN WITHOUT A WOMAN (SILVER DOLLAR)

You can throw a silver dollar down upon the ground,
And it will roll, because it's round.
A woman never knows what a good man she's got,
Until she turns him down,

A man without a woman is like a ship without a sail,
A boat without a rudder or a fish without a tail,
A man without a woman is like a wreck upon the sand,
There's only one thing worse in the universe
That's a woman without a man.
A woman without a man.

You can throw a silver dollar down upon the ground,
And it will roll, because it's round.
A woman never knows what a good man she's got,
Until she turns him down,

So listen, my honey, listen to me
I want you to understand
That as a SILVER DOLLAR goes from hand to hand
A woman goes from man to man,
A woman goes from man to man.

Good! Keep them coming!

Takes a zombie to resurrect a zombie thread jbuck! :)

George Formby - When I'm cleaning windows...

"I go cleaning windows to earn an honest bob"

A bob being a shilling or new 5p.

This one is a classic - and it actually inspired one of our smilies!
(Only quoting a short snippet, because around it the lyrics get even more freaky.)



Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
Banana phone!
Boop-boo-ba-doo-ba-doop!
Ping pong ping pong ping pong ping
Po-nana phone!
It's no baloney,
it ain't a phony -
My cellular, bananular phone!

Don't need quarters, don't need dimes,
to call a friend of mine!
Don't need computer or TV,
to have a real good time!
I'll call for pizza, I'll call my cat,
I'll call the white house, have a chat!
I'll place a call around the world,
operator, get me Beijing-jing-jing-jing!




...Incidentally, I've checked the lyrics on three different websites, and got three (subtly) different versions. So I decided to make my own sorry.
(If you now can't get this song out of your head... also sorry.)

A song from my youth.

Hot cross buns!
Hot cross buns!
one a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns!

If you have no daughters,
give them to your sons.
One a penny two a penny,
Hot cross buns

Probably no Dutch song mentioned, but Tante Julia by Boudewijn de Groot makes reference to a coin:

'Dus in het kerkenzakje deed ik braaf m'n kleverige cent.'

Which translates to something like 'So I voluntarily put my sticky cent in the church donation bag'.

Just for the record, in The Netherlands it's common to collect money at the end of a church service, usually via a bag at the exit. The Dutch cent hadn't been in use for decades until it saw a semi-revival with the Euro. Dutch 1 and 2 Euro-cent coins are nowadays only minted in limited numbers for use in sets. As this song is from the 1970's and tells about the youth of the artist, the cent was very much alive back then. :)

For what it is worth, he got his name from Kelvin Martin, the original 50 Cent.

Although, I would like to think he keeps a Kennedy half dollar pocket piece.