ONE SILVER DOLLAR
fr "River Of No Return" 1954 film
Lionel Newman (m) Ken Darby (l)  1954

Marilyn Monroe (film soundtrack)


One silver dollar,
Bright silver dollar,
Changing hands,
Changing hands;
Endlessly rollin',
Wasted and stolen,
Changing hands,
Changing hands.

Spend for a baby's trinket,
Won by a gambler's lust,
Pierced by an outlaw's bullet,
And lost in the blood-red dust.

One silver dollar,
Worn silver dollar,
Changing hands,
Changing hands.

Love is a shining dollar,
Bright as a church bell's chime,
Gambled and spent and wasted,
And lost in the dump of time.

Ooh-ooh,
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh,
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh,
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.

One silver dollar,
Worn silver dollar,
Changing hearts,
Changing lives,
Changing hands.




(Transcribed by Peter Akers - February 2011)