Name a Numismatic Song

QCCoinGuy

I thought this would produce some fun answers. Any song qualifies so long as it includes a numismatic reference or lyric. For example:

1. Midnight Rider by The Allman Brothers: "I've got one more silver dollar"
2. Are the Good Times Really Over by Merle Haggard: "I wish a buck was still silver"
3. Long Time Running by The Tragically Hip: "I'll drop a caribou, and I'll tell on you" (reference to a Canadian quarter)

Close, but no cigar:
One Toke[n] Over the Line by Brewer and Shipley

MrHalfDime

"Big Chief Buffalo Nickel", Leon Redbone

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9y4DdfXa6U0

Morpheus1967

Any song by Eddie Money.

MrHalfDime

"Brother Can You Spare a Dime", Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, and Maine's own Rudy Vallee

https://youtube.com/results?search_query=buddy+can+you+spare+a+dime

coinpalice

no quarter-Led Zeppelin

QCCoinGuy

@coinpalice said:
no quarter-Led Zeppelin

Beat me to it

koynekwest

"Down on the Corner" by CCR-

Down on the corner, out in the street
'Willy and the Poor Boys' are playin'
Bring a nickel, tap your feet

QCCoinGuy

And it Stoned Me by Van Morrison

"Half a mile from the county fair
And the rain came pourin' down
Me and Billy standin' there
With a silver half a crown"

MrHalfDime

"She's the Queen of the Silver Dollar", Dr. Hook

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TV5ztdWx56I

TommyType

"Movin' Out", Billy Joel

"Tradin' in my Chevy for a Cadilac-ac-CAC-CAC"

Ok....I may be mis-reading the intent.

Coinstartled

Auctioneer.

https://youtu.be/q3u6zbz63uU

MrHalfDime

"Under the Double Eagle", U. S. Navy Band

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BgSypRHsqAQ

QCCoinGuy

For the Love of Money, by the O'Jays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjuRhETwbI0

privatecoin

Take the money and run. Steve Miller band.

Insider2

I'm dating myself: "Three Coins in the Fountain."

grip

Three coins in the fountain.............The 4 aces.

MrHalfDime

And of course, "Money", Pink Floyd

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpbbuaIA3Ds

Smudge

Your Cash ain't nothing but trash. Steve Miller again.

CaptHenway

"It had to BU!"-- "Casablanca"

REALGATOR

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts:

I love rock n' roll
So put another dime in the jukebox, baby
I love rock n' roll
So come an' take your time an' dance with me

QCCoinGuy

Silver and Gold by Joe Strummer. Great song, and prescient. He died just before this was released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf8w0773x2U

crazyhounddog

Pennies from heaven

JBK

@QCCoinGuy said:
3. Long Time Running by The Tragically Hip: "I'll drop a caribou, and I'll tell on you" (reference to a Canadian quarter)

is that real Canadian slang for a quarter? Never heard that.

Smudge

Roxy Music Editions of You. Old money's better than new.

QCCoinGuy

@JBK said:

@QCCoinGuy said:
3. Long Time Running by The Tragically Hip: "I'll drop a caribou, and I'll tell on you" (reference to a Canadian quarter)

is that real Canadian slang for a quarter? Never heard that.

I've never heard anybody actually use it, which is a shame. Great line.

cnncoins

"Our love is Rarer than a 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent" by the Rockaways.
And yes, this is a real song...

carabonnair

"Thruppence and sixpence every day..." Magic Bus - The Who

Smudge

Dynamo Humm by Frank Zappa. 40 dollar bill. Can't repeat the lyrics here.

bigmarty58

Money Money
Grateful Dead

AUandAG

Home on the Range: where the buffaloes roam.

bob

oldabeintx

Midnight Rider (I think)

johnny9434

does the band " 50 cent " count?

Rollerman

Three coins in the fountain, Taxman by the Beatles.

Coinosaurus

This, "If You're a Coin Collector," from 1965, is worth listening to: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/523061.

koynekwest

"On Broadway" by The Drifters or George Benson-

"They say the women treat you fine
On Broadway
But lookin' at them just gives me the blues
How ya gonna make some time
When all you got is one thin dime
And one thin dime won't even shine your shoes"

koynekwest

And "Greenback Dollar" by the Kingston Trio and others-

And I don't give a damn about a Greenback a-dollar
Spend it fast as I can
For a whaling song and a good guitar
The only things that I understand, poor boy

bsshog40

Put a quarter in the jukebox- Buck owens

yosclimber

"Attribution Blues", by Fuzzy Plates and the Triplex Lenses?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSXKyHM133c

"Give Me Just a Little Half Dime", by Chairmen of the Bored?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzIAiyxS-nk

LRCTom

Well if I had money,
I'd tell you what I'd do,
I go downtown buy a Mercury or two.
Crazy bout a Mercury,
Lord I'm crazy bout a Mercury,

Alan Jackson - Mercury Blues

LRCTom

For Morgan lovers:

"All we are saying...
is give Peace a chance..."

Ronyahski

Bare Naked Ladies: " If I Had A Million Dollars"

If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars
Well, I' d buy you a house
I would buy you a house

And if I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars
I'd buy you furniture for your house
Maybe a nice chesterfield or an ottoman
And if I had a million dollars

If I had a million dollars
Well, I'd buy you a K-Car
A nice reliant automobile
And if I had a million dollars, I' d buy your love

Ronyahski

Roger Miller - "King of the Road"

Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means, king of the road.

RichieURich

What CNNcoins said:

Regulated

Despite being an instrumental, "I Collect Coins" by Mercury Rev fits the bill...

Coinstartled

Zombies... Trime of the Season.

LRCTom

..and of course...

"One little, two little, three little Indians....."

cnncoins

Rich, I have a signed copy of that 45 framed in my office!

messydesk

A Nickel and a Nail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2MsF3sTftg

which also happens to be the title of Adam Leech's movie about using Hobo Nickels to get from Colorado Springs to the Tampa FUN show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESvWO9aOJQg

Tunis

The Flirts- Jukebox (Don’t Put Another Dime)

BuffaloIronTail

Warren Zevon: "I Drank Up All The Money".

Pete

Walkerfan

Warrant: "Dirty, rotten, filthy, stinkin' rich." or KISS "Cadillac Dreams"... I want money, money that's all I need... I got Cadillac Dreams Mr. don't you take it from me.