(The Coin Machine Song), 1941.
Words and music by Del Sharbutt, Frank Stanton and Axel Remark.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
The coin machine in the tavern
Has a story to tell
About one night when a boy and maid
Found romance in its spell
Refrain
Once a soldier met a maid
After he was on parade
They met in the rattle of
Spoke in the babble of
The Nickel Serenade
All night long the record played
For the nickels that he paid
And love kept a rendezvous
There as they listened to
The Nickel Serenade
They danced and sang their cares away
Till the break of dawn
He told her he would always stay
But he soon was gone
Now he’s back in his brigade
So the lonely little maid
Is left all alone and blue
Cries while she listens to
The Nickel Serenade