The Ballad Of Penny Evans chords by
Steve Goodman
Steve Goodman

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Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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Oh, my name is Penny Evans,
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and my age is twenty -one.
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Gm
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A young widow in the war
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C
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that's being fought in Vietnam.
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C
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And I have two in fant daughters,
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and I do the be st I can.
Now they say the war is over,
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but I think it's just begun
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And I remember I was seventeen
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Am
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on the day I met young Bill
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Am
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At his father's grand piano
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we'd play good old heart and soul
And I only knew the left -hand part,
and he the right so well
He's the only boy I slept with,
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A
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and the only one I will
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It's first we had a baby girl,
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and we had two good years
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And it was next the 1 -A notice came,
and we parted without tears
And it was nine months from
our last good night,
our second babe appears
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And so it's ten months an
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d a telegram
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confirming all our fears
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And now every month
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I get a check from
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an army bureaucrat
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And it's every month I tear it up
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and I mail the damn thing back
Do you think that makes it alright?
Do you think I'd fall for that?
And you can keep your
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bloody money
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A
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Sure won't bring my Billy back
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Am
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I never cared for politics
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And speeches I don't understand
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An d likewise never took
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no charity
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From any living man
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But tonight, there's 50 ,000 gone
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in that unhappy land
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And 50 ,000 heart and souls
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being played with just one hand
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And my name is Penny Evans,
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and I've just gone 21
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A young widow in the war
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that's being fought in Vietnam
And I have two infant daughters
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And I thank God I have no sons
Now they say the war is over
But I think it's just begun
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