Save a Penny / Save a Buck

You can't find a single thing

That costs a penny anymore,

But loose change thrown intoa jar

Can yield a bounty in due course,

And it's easier to let it sit

And keep its brothers company

Than to haul around in purseor pocket

Like the burden of a horse.

 

Some may think the mundanetask

Of rolling pennies far tootrite

To be concerned or botheredby

The burden of collecting them.

And these shortsighted peoplewill

One day retire to poverty

And wonder why the world hasnot

Been kinder as their candlesdim.

The better off are better off

Not by chance and not byluck.

They learned their lessonearly on...

Save a penny... Save a buck.