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Al Duvall - Penny For Your Thoughts Lyrics

There's a slaughterhouse sunset caught up on our barb wire jack
Where a stranger is only a friend you haven't shot in the back
Our bloodhound is drooling and gnawing a hobo bone
We've had it with "howdy," we're all looking out for our own

Once I went to the city and passed through what passed for a park
Just a copse full of robbers who came out to kill after dark
We watched children play hopscotch and homicide chalklines for fun
I ran back up the country, back into the arms of my gun

Oh say something honey, I hope you don't think that I'm strange
You know that I'm singing these songs just to bring home some change
You're the apple of my eye--you're just a little tart
Here's a penny for your thoughts and a nickel for your heart

They caught the cat burglar with a sack full of kittens to fence
They birched his britches behind him to serve him his recompense
It seems the cat-o'-nine tails gives saturnine males a thrill
'Cause he got off on good behavior and he's at it still

This usherette Rosey, she shows me a seat with a smile
If I made a proposal, my Rose'll go right down the aisle
Oh, but since the miscarriage, we can kiss marriage goodbye
Now I'm back on the make putting on the old "sensitive guy"

Oh say something honey, I hope you don't think that I'm strange
You know that I'm singing these songs just to bring home some change
You're the apple of my eye--you're just a little tart
Here's a penny for your thoughts and a nickel for your heart
If this is pork, bring me chicken; if it's chicken, then bring me some pork
And this coffee's so thick I have to drink it with a fork
I just can't see how someone's expected to choke down this swill
If this wasn't my lunch car, I'd up and skip out on the bill

Oh say something honey, I hope you don't think that I'm strange
You know that I'm singing these songs just to bring home some change
You're the apple of my eye--you're just a little tart
Here's a penny for your thoughts and a nickel for your heart