One silver dollar 
Bright silver dollar 
Changing hands 
Changing hands 

Endlessly rolling 
Wasted or stolen 
Changing hands 
Changing hands 

Spent for a beer his trinket 
Won by a gambler's lust 
Pierced by an outlaw's bullet 
And found in the blood red dust 

One silver dollar 
One silver dollar 
Changing hands 
Changing hands 

Love is a shining dollar 
Bright as a churchbell's schime 
Gambled and spent, and wasted 
And lost in a dust of time 

One silver dollar 
One silver dollar 
Changing hearts 
Changing lives 
Changing hands