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07 Sep 03 - 12:43 PM (#1014394) Subject: Lyr Add: FROM FORTY TO SIXTY-FIVE (Masters Family) From: Gene Stumbled across this great cut from Library Of Congress LP FROM FORTY TO SIXTY-FIVE The Masters Family As I [1] read the mornin' paper I [4] look the want ads [1] thru I [4] thought perhaps that [1] I could find Some [2] honest work to [5] do I [1] knew that I had never shirked The [4] work assigned to [1] me But [4] young wanted [1] for the jobs Was [5] all that I could [1] see CHORUS Young men wanted It's [4] all youth to-[1]-day Young men wanted The [2] old man cast a-[5]-way I [1] pray the Lord to help me These [4] weary years sur-[1]-vive The [4] missing link that [1] lies between [5] forty and sixty-[1]-five I may get the old age pension, if I see sixty-five But I've so many years to go, how can I stay alive When you have reached the middle age, your useful days are thru With young men taking all the jobs, there's nothing left to do CHORUS When this dreary life is ended, and I am laid to rest My weary soul will take its flight to the mansions of the blest Saint Peter then will welcome me the moment I arrive And I'm afraid I'll find the gate locked 'til I'm sixty-five CHORUS Source: Library Of Congress LBC-8 Songs of Labor And Livelihood |