One Dime For Wine Lyrics - Porter Wagoner

From a small country town to a big and lonely city 

From a sweet country girl to a woman with no pity 

Once a man with money, now so ragged and funny as he cries 

One dime for wine, Mister, one dime for wine 

From a cool shady lane to a hard concrete jungle 

From a man once respected to a man so low and humble 

Once so full of pride now hangs his head and softly cries 

One dime for wine, Mister, one dime for wine 

What makes this man stoop so low and beg for money? 

Who is the man holding out his hand, who could he be? 

Then I saw my own sad reflection in the water 

In the gutter off the street and I realized that lowly man is me 

One dime for wine, Mister, one dime for wine