Western Swing music, Folk music, and Fiddle music by Shadric Smith and The Billy Buffalo Band!

A Penny For Adeline

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1. Down there by the levee, on a Mississippi morn,

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A girl with a curl in her soft black hair was born

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She ran to the river just as soon as she could, 'Cause it made her feel so fine

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And everybody knew her name was Adeline

2. Now the turn of the century came right down on the pretty little three year old

When the horse and the buggy and the house by the river got sold

Her daddy left town with a deed in his hand to a lost Arizona gold mine

And he never came back with a Penny for Adeline

Chorus ( 2X )

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A Penny for Adeline boys, a Penny for Adeline

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He never came back with a Penny for Adeline

3. "Well, Adeline I'm callin' you 'cause the heat is drivin' me mad

The rain won't fall and the mule's got a leg goin' bad

I never should've left that cool green valley for a desert where the bobcats whine

And I can't even save a Penny for Adeline

Repeat Chorus

Repeat 1st Verse

Recording available on Tunesmith CD and Frontier Fiddle Band CD