She sat all alone on a bus out of Beaumont The courage of just eighteen years A penny and quarter taped to a letter And mamma’s goodbye in her ears
She watched as her high-school faded behind her And the house with the white picket fence Then she read the note that her mamma had wrote Wrapped up with twenty-six cents
CHORUS: When you get lonely, call me, anytime at all I’ll be there with you, always, anywhere at all There’s nothing I got that I wouldn’t give And money is never enough Here’s a penny for your thoughts, a quarter for the call And all o’ your mamma’s love
A penny and quarter buys a whole lotta nothing Taped to an old wrinkled note But when she didn’t have much, she had all mamma’s love Inside that old envelope
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Oh it’s been years since mamma’s been gone But when she hold the coins she feels her love Just as strong…
REPEAT CHORUS
Here’s a penny for your thoughts, a quarter for the call And all o’ your mamma’s love
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