Hi, Wolfgang.

I think, therefore, it depends on the singer's own feeling. "Three score and ten" is a rare exception in the Happy File. I use it on the actual date of the storm instead of in October. For reasons totally inconsequential to the point -- the song doesn't give a date in October so I couldn't use it at all. I agree that the song is "right" as it sits. Anyway, "February" wouldn't scan.