Standard (EADGBE)

I’d give you all of me to know what you were thinking

 And if I had one wish, I’d wish I wasn’t sinking here

Drowning in this well

 Oh, can’t you tell

 That I can’t pick myself up off the ground

 Well, I’ve been face down

 And pushed aside

 Well, you know I’d rather just turn tail and run

 Than lie here in the sun

 And watch you pass me by

 Cause I ain’t worth a dime

(Yeah yeah ... oh yeah...)

Chorus

 But if only I could stand up straight,

 I wouldn’t have to lie and wait

 I’d get up and roll away

 And never be ignored

 I’ve got a feeling that I’m something more

 Than just a piece of copper ore

 Turning green and looking for

 The reason I was born

 Well, I’ve been around since 1964

 In banks and bottom drawers

 And on railroad ties

 I’ve been passed around and cast aside

 Skipped and flipped and flattened wide

 Spun around and thrown away and left alone to lie

Chorus

But I heard about a penny found

 Lying underneath the couch

 By a woman who was kneeling down

 Looking for some change

 Then the woman danced around

 And called her friends all over town

 Told ‘em what was lost is found

 It’s another penny saved

So I find that all this time

 Beneath the surface, I could shine

 Like all the gold a king and queen could measure

 You see, even just a penny is a treasure