Band: Piano and Vocals: Marilyn Rucker, Sax and vocals: Karyn Lane, Sax and clarinet: Don Denzin, Bass: Gary Feist, Drums: Masumi Jones, Banjo: Johnny Serrano

Karyn added some fine horn parts and fills to this. Don Denzin adds clarinet solo.

Lyrics

If they aren’t making pennies D/D/D/D
How am I going to pay D/D
To get you any more thoughts out of you? A/A7

Would you take an IOU A7/A7
If I promise I’ll confide A7/A7
After you say A7/A7
What you’re puzzling through A7/D/D

If I offer you a nickel D/D/D/D
Will you give me all it’s worth:
Tell me five times what D/D/G/G/
We’d normally review?

If they aren’t making pennies G/G/D/Bmin7
How am I going to pay Emin7/A7/D/D
To get you any more thoughts out of you?

Now I’ve got several jars of pennies G/G/D/D
in my house somewhere
I can pay you once a day Emin7/A7/D/D
For fifty years

But will that be enough G/G/D/D
To keep you happy and chatty
Or maybe I could take you out for beer? E7/E7/A7/A7

(Instrumental break)

Now I’ve got several jars of pennies
in my house somewhere
I can pay you once a day
For fifty years

But will that be enough
To keep you happy and chatty
Or maybe I could take you out for beer?

If there are no more pennies
How will I compensate you
For expressing all the thoughts
You’ve suppressed?

Will you take Visa or Discover?
And how much will that uncover
Will you tell me if you’re anxious or depressed?

I used to never worry
Cause I’d offer that one penny
And you’d talk to me the whole night through

But If they aren’t making pennies
How am I going to pay
To get any more thoughts out of you?

(You’re sweet and smart and beautiful
But still mostly inscrutable
So how will i get any thoughts from you?)