Happy birthday Bob. TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' by Garrison Keillor - for Dylan's 60th in 2001 Come gather 'round people wherever you roam It's time to start looking for a good nursing home And accept it that soon you'll be living alone And you'll need help with bathin and shavin They say "golden years," but it's the twilight zone For the times, they are a-changin'. Come pals from the Sixties who are sixty like me Once we were longing to love and be free And now we're all marchin in the A.A.R.P, And get senior discounts on drug payments And we're longing to live til we're 73 For the times, they are a-changin'. Come doctors and internists, answer my call. Does my PSA say that my prostate's still small? These blood pressure pills are not helping at all. Or these tranquilizers I'm taking. I walk cross the room, I'm afraid I will fall, For the times, they are a-changin'. Come daughters and sons throughout the land Someday you'll get old and you'll understand. There's gray in my hair and big spots on my hand. Your daddy is rapidly agin'. Once I rolled stones and now I'm an old man, For the times, they are a-changin'. I never dreamed I'd get this old so fast I look in the mirror and I'm simply aghast Cause all of my best times are far in the past. And my memory is rapidly fadin', And my memory, my friends, is blowin in the wind Like a rolling stone In a nursing home Happy Birthday to me No,no,no, it ain't me Bob It ain't me who's getting old, Bob, It ain't me who's getting old. Forever young, forever young, I will stay...forever young.
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