The Ballad Of Penny Evans
The Ballad Of Penny Evans

The Ballad Of Penny Evans easy guitar chords by Steve Goodman

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    • Verse 1
    Oh, 
    my name 
    is Penny 
    Evans, 

    and 
    my age 
    is 
    twenty 
    -one. 

    A 
    young widow 
    in 
    the 
    war 

    that's being 
    fought 
    in 
    Vietnam. 

    And I 
    have 
    two 
    in
    fant 
    daughters, 

    and 
    I 
    do the 
    be
    st I 
    can. 

    Now 
    they 
    say 
    the 
    war 
    is over, 

    but I 
    think 
    it's just 
    begun

    And 
    I remember 
    I 
    was 
    seventeen 

    on 
    the 
    day 
    I met 
    young Bill 

    At 
    his 
    father's 
    grand piano 

    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, 

    and 
    the only 
    one 
    I 
    will 

    It's 
    first we had 
    a 
    baby girl, 

    and 
    we had 
    two 
    good 
    years 

    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 

    And 
    so it's 
    ten months 
    an

    d a tele
    gram 

    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 
    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 

    bloody 
    money 

    Sure won't 
    bring 
    my 
    Billy 
    back 

    I 
    nev
    er cared 
    for 
    politics 

    And 
    speeches I 
    don't 
    un
    derstand 

    An
    d likewise 
    never 
    took 

    no 
    char
    ity 

    From 
    any 
    living 
    man 

    But 
    tonight, 
    there's 
    50 
    ,000 
    gone 

    in 
    that 
    un
    happy 
    land 

    And 
    50 
    ,000 
    heart and souls 

    being 
    played 
    with 
    just one 
    hand 

    An
    d my 
    name is 
    Penny 
    Evans, 

    an
    d I've 
    just gone 
    21 

    A 
    young widow 
    in 
    the 
    war 

    that's being 
    fought 
    in Vietnam 

    And 
    I 
    have 
    two infant 
    daughters 

    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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