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She walked into the Greyhound station in Syracuse, New York.
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Laid forty dollars on the counter.
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Set her suitcase on the floor.
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And the man said, can I help you?
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She said, all I want to know is I got forty dollars.
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How far south will that much go?
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Well, little lady, looks like you're in luck.
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Well, you can ride to South Carolina for under forty bucks.
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And he pointed to a poster that said special of the week.
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Thirty-nine ninety-five, one way to Myrtle Beach.
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So, she bought herself a ticket.
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And she turned to walk away.
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And she heard the man behind.
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The ticket counters say, ma'am, you forgot your change.
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This five cents belongs to you.
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She said, when you're as broke as I am, what's the nickel gonna do?
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He said, this nickel ain't worth nothing for all that it will buy.
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But with it, you can stand up straight and look folks in the eye.
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And if you never lose this nickel, you never will be broke.
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And you'll never be a loser, if you never do lose hope.
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Well, she rolled across New York and down the Jersey Pike.
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Across Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina in the night.
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Rolled down Highway 17 through Little River and Old D.
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And the sun was coming up when she got to Myrtle Beach.
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And with her nickel in her pocket and her suitcase in her hand, she walked down to the
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pavilion, looked at the water and the sand.
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And the sunlight on the seagulls and the people on the pier.
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And the pelicans and the porpoises, she breathed that ocean air.
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And her past just blew away on that cool Atlantic breeze.
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And for the first time in a long time, she finally felt at ease.
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And she called her mom to collect from the pay phone that first day.
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And her mom said, how you doing, honey?
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And she said, mom, I'm okay.
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Ain't got much, but it's enough.
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And I'll come out ahead.
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And she held on to her nickel.
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And to herself she said, this nickel ain't worth nothing for all it will buy.
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But with it, I can stand up straight and look folks in the eye.
D Em
Cause if I never lose this nickel, I never will be broke.
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And I'll never be a loser, if I never do lose hope.
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D Em
Well, she found a place in Surfside Beach early that first year.
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Waited tables in Myrtle's Inlet and called bingo on the pier.
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And she made a lot of friends.
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And she somehow made the rent.
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And the money came real hard, but it sure was easy spent.
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And by the first part of September, all her friends were gone.
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But she didn't want to leave.
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She decided she'd stay on.
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So she worked part-time through December at a family pantry store.
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They laid her off on Christmas Eve, didn't need her anymore.
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So she drew her unemployment forty bucks a week.
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Hell her rent was a hundred bucks a month.
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And still she had to eat.
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And sometimes it came right down to that nickel laying there.
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She held it tight.
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She'd recite those words just like a prayer.
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This nickel ain't worth nothing for all it will buy.
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But with it, I can stand up straight and look folks in the eye.
D Em
Cause if I never lose this nickel, I never will be broke.
G A
And I'll never be a loser, if I never do lose hope.
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Well, twenty-four years later, on a very special day, a bride walked down the aisle and her
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dad gave her away.
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And she wore a golden locket that her mom had given her.
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And inside it was a nickel.
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And on the outside were the words.
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This nickel ain't worth nothing for all it will buy.
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But with it, I can stand up straight and look folks in the eye.
D Em
Cause if I never lose this nickel, I never will be broke.
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And I'll never be a loser, if I never do lose hope.
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