Making Sense of Dollars and Cents

One cents a penny and one is so strange
You won't find much, but you need it for change
It's made out of copper and it shines when it's new
But turns thirty round in a week or two

Save five pennies and give them to me
I'll give you a nickel as bright as can be
A nickel's one coin but it says it's worth five
It's too just as sure as I stand here alive

Dollars and cents, dollars and cents
Try to make sense out of dollars and cents
We all want to know and will spare no expense
To try to make sense out of dollars and cents

You know, two nickels, they make one dime
But something puzzles me time after time
A dollar's two pennies and two times a nickel
But it's smaller than both, has me all in a pickle

A quarter comes next and it saves you six cents
I'll tell you right now, it's worth twenty-five cents
You can make up a twenty-five cents many ways
There is so many, it could take you days!

Dollars and cents, dollars and cents
Try to make sense out of dollars and cents
We all want to know and will spare no expense
To try to make sense out of dollars and cents

If you put a hundred cents all in one whack
Four quarters, ten dimes all piled in a stack
We'd have a box worth of coins or a dollar
And if you know that, you're a real mighty scholar!

Dollars and cents, dollars and cents
We made some sense out of dollars and cents
We had some fun and we spared no expense
To try to make sense out of dollars and cents

Dollars and cents, dollars and cents
We made some sense out of dollars and cents
We had some fun and we spared no expense
To try to make sense out of dollars and cents

To try to make sense out of dollars and cents

Try to make sense out of dollars and cents