From the recording Pennies
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">This became a great excuse to work with an outstanding pianist, Bruce Neswick, whose accompaniment added tremendously to this song.</span><br /><br /></span></span></p>
<p><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">© 1998 Steven E. Cutts </span></span></em></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">recorded by Dusty Rose at Cue Recording Studios, Falls Church, Virginia in <strong>1999</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">on<em> All Alone . . . But Hardly On My Own<br /><br /></em></span></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Steve, <em>vocals</em></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Bruce Neswick, <em>piano</em></span></span></li>
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Lyrics
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">My parents taught me that I'd never get rich overnight;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Wealth comes from working hard and saving everything in sight.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">I had a piggybank; I'd add a coin or two,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">And gradually my penny fortune grew.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Loving is like saving up our pennies in a special cup; </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> It's bits of kindness added day by day. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">A tender word -- a helping hand -- and gradually we understand</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> That we're in love.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Love that really lasts does not appear in some bright flash;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> It takes its time in growing slowly which is why I say: </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Invest your own love patiently; as it draws interest you'll find</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> You'll be rich with love.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Only in the movies and in fairytales</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Does love come in the twinkling of an eye.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">And likewise wisdom takes time to accumulate;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">We must wait 'til it matures by and by.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">Living can't be hurried; we can plan and we can worry,</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> But life moves along at its deliberate pace. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">A triumph here -- a setback there -- circumstances seem unfair; </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> There's so much we'd like to know! </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">But questions that we ask may not be answered in a flash; </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> We often find solutions in a different time and place. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">For living to make sense we have to save experience</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> And let the interest grow. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">"A penny saved, a penny earned. " "Save pennies for a rainy day. " </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">"Let pennies fall from heaven. " Perhaps it's time to coin a new cliché : </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;">That loving is like saving . . . that living is like saving all our pennies one by one.</span></span></p>