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Elvish

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Since I'll be round and turning a nice round number all in the same day...and won't be able to drink myself silly to celebrate...I'm trying to find some songs to help me ease the pain :grin:

Just a few country ones so far:

My Next 30 Years ~ Tim McGraw

Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old) ~ Garth Brooks

The Blues Man ~ Hank Williams Jr. (although I might skip this one because it reminds me of my dad...)

Thoughts, anyone? :)

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Why...

Sinatra ~ It Was a Very Good Year

When I was seventeen it was a very good year

It was a very good year for small town girls and soft summer nights

We'd hide from the lights on the village green

When I was seventeen

When I was twenty-one it was a very good year

It was a very good year for city girls who lived up the stair

With all that perfumed hair and it came undone

When I was twenty-one

When I was thirty-five it was a very good year

It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls

Of independent means, we'd ride in limousines their chauffeurs would drive

When I was thirty-five

But now the days are short, I'm in the autumn of the year

And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs

From the brim to the dregs, it poured sweet and clear

It was a very good year

It was a mess of good years

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Those Were The Days by Mary Hopkin

Once upon a time there was a tavern

Where we used to raise a glass or two

Remember how we laughed away the hours

And dreamed of all the great things we would do

Those were the days my friend

We thought they'd never end

We'd sing and dance forever and a day

We'd live the life we choose

We'd fight and never lose

For we were young and sure to have our way

La la la la la la

La la la la la la

La la la la, la la la la la la la

Then the busy years went rushing by us

We lost our starry notions on the way

If by chance I´d see you in the tavern

We'd smile at one another and we'd say

Those were the days my friend

We thought they'd never end

We'd sing and dance forever and a day

We'd live the life we choose

We'd fight and never lose

La la la la la la

La la la la la la

La la la la, la la la la la la la

Just tonight I stood before the tavern

Nothing seemed the way it used to be

In the glass I saw a strange reflection

Was that lonely woman really me

Those were the days my friend

We thought they'd never end

We'd sing and dance forever and a day

We'd live the life we choose

We'd fight and never lose

Those were the days, oh yes those were the days

La la la la la la

La la la la la la

La la la la, la la la la la la la

La la la la la la

La la la la la la

La la la la, la la la la la la la

Through the door there came familiar laughter

I saw your face and heard you call my name

Oh my friend we're older but no wiser

For in our hearts the dreams are still the same

Those were the days my friend

We thought they'd never end

We'd sing and dance forever and a day

We'd live the life we choose

We'd fight and never lose

Those were the days, oh yes those were the days!

La la la la la la

La la la la la la

La la la la, la la la la la la la

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Jerry Lee "The Killer" Lewis sums this subject up on his latest "Last Man Standing" CD duet with George Jones: "Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age." :guitar:

(And to think that I thought that the "Maggie O'Connell" character on "Northern Exposure" was going off the deep end in the "Northwest Passages" episode when she was about to hit the big three-zero way back in 1992.)

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"Help The Aged" - Pulp

Help the aged; one time they were just like you,

Drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue.

Help the aged, don't just put them in a home,

Can't have much fun in there all on their own.

Give a hand, if you can,

try and help them to unwind.

Give them hope & give them comfort 'cos they're running out of time.

*In the meantime we try.

Try to forget that nothing lasts forever.

No big deal so give us all a feel.

Funny how it all falls away.

When did you first realise?

It's time you took an older lover baby.

Teach you stuff, although he's looking rough.

Funny how it all falls away.

Help the aged, 'cos one day you'll be older too

You might need someone who can

pull you through

And if you look very hard

behind the lines upon their face you may see where you are headed

and it's such a lonely place.

[*Repeat]

You can dye your hair

but it's the one thing you can't change.

Can't run away from yourself, yourself...

[*Repeat]

Funny how it all falls away. [x3]

So help the aged.

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"Old Man"

Old man look at my life,

I'm a lot like you were.

Old man look at my life,

I'm a lot like you were.

Old man look at my life,

Twenty four

and there's so much more

Live alone in a paradise

That makes me think of two.

Love lost, such a cost,

Give me things

that don't get lost.

Like a coin that won't get tossed

Rolling home to you.

Old man take a look at my life

I'm a lot like you

I need someone to love me

the whole day through

Ah, one look in my eyes

and you can tell that's true.

Lullabies, look in your eyes,

Run around the same old town.

Doesn't mean that much to me

To mean that much to you.

I've been first and last

Look at how the time goes past.

But I'm all alone at last.

Rolling home to you.

Old man take a look at my life

I'm a lot like you

I need someone to love me

the whole day through

Ah, one look in my eyes

and you can tell that's true.

Old man look at my life,

I'm a lot like you were.

Old man look at my life,

I'm a lot like you were.

:(

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