PENNY EVANS

(Steve Goodman)

tune of Flying Cloud



Oh my name is Penny Evans and my age is 21

A young widow in the war that's being fought in Viet Nam

And I have two infant daughters and I do the best I can

Now they say the war is over, but I think it's just begun



I remember I was seventeen on the day I met young Bill

At his father's grand piano, we'd play old Heart and Soul

Well, I only knew the left hand part and he the right so well

He's the only boy I ever slept with and the only one I will



It's first we had a baby girl and we had two good years

It was next the A1 notice came and we parted without tears

So it's nine months from our last good night our second babe

appears

So it's ten months and a telegram confirming all our fears

And now every month I get a check from an Army bureaucrat

And it's every month I tear it up and mail the damn thing back

Do you think that makes it all right, do you think I'd fall for that

And you can keep your bloody money, it won't bring my Billy back



I never cared for politics and speeches I don't understand

And likewise never took no charity from any living man

But tonight there's fifty thousand gone in that unhappy land

and fifty thousand "Heart and Soul's" being played with just one

hand



Oh my name is Penny Evans and my age is 21

A young widow in the war that's being fought in Viet Nam

And I have two infant daughters and I do the best I can

Now they say the war is over, but I think it's just begun



Copyright Steve Goodman

@war @death @soldier @love

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