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Thread #165042 Message #3957305
Posted By: Joe Offer
18-Oct-18 - 03:11 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Maypole Inn: I'd like to live to 99
Subject: RE: Lyr req: I'd like to live to 99
Album is called The Blackbird (I think she sounds very Irish)
This is what I understand...
While seated in the parlour of the Maypole Inn... Old Uncle Joe got up and shouted with a grin I'm 83 today my lad so have a drink with me I've lived my life with the girls so have some gayity And then no grumpy 60's lemonade then said You're only 83 today and what a life you've lead I'd like to live to 99 Gool ol' 99 Wouldn't it be fine? I've always lived the good man's life
Never drunk Never smoked Never had a wife Oh see, said mister 83 You say the drinks and smokes you'd never paying for And never even longed to squeezed a--------- lump of .---------------- What do you want to live till 99 for?