Songs about getting older?

Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN YOU ARE OLD AND GREY (Tom Lehrer)
From: NightWing
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 11:48 PM

This one is also more about contemplating aging. But I can't resist tossing a Tom Lehrer lyric in where there's an opportunity. You can find a nice midi of the tune at this link.

When You Are Old And Grey

As recorded by Tom Lehrer on "Revisited" (1960)

Since I still appreciate you,
Let's find love while we may.
Because I know I'll hate you
When you are old and grey.

So say you love me here and now,
I'll make the most of that.
Say you love and trust me,
For I know you'll disgust me
When you're old and getting fat.

An awful debility,
A lessened utility,
A loss of mobility
Is a strong possibility.
In all probability
I'll lose my virility
And you your fertility
And desirability,
And this liability
Of total sterility
Will lead to hostility
And a sense of futility,
So let's act with agility
While we still have facility,
For we'll soon reach senility
And lose the ability.

Your teeth will start to go, dear,
Your waist will start to spread.
In twenty years or so, dear,
I'll wish that you were dead.

I'll never love you then at all
The way I do today.
So please remember,
When I leave in December,
I told you so in May.

I have also seen this song quoted somewhere with a different final verse, to wit:

I'll never love you then at all
In these words you can trust
So please remember,
When I leave in December,
I told you in August.

I usually do the alternate final verse as a reprise with a slightly different tune. *EG*

BB,
NightWing

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 11:26 AM

Sounds right Matt! No wonder I couldn't find the lyrics. I think the surgery was about 1983. I was only 34 years old that year, but those kids really put me in my place!

Subject: Lyr Add: OLDER WOMEN MAKE BEAUTIFUL LOVERS
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 11:19 AM

Mary, could it have been Ronnie McDowell's classic mid-80's country song "Older Women Make Beautiful Lovers"?

Older women, make beautiful lovers
Older women, they understand
I've been around some, and I have discovered
That older women know just how to please a man.

Everybody seems to love those younger women
From eighteen on up to twenty-five
Well I love 'em too, but I'm tellin' you
Learnin' how to really love, takes a little time.

So baby don't you worry about growin' older
Those young girls ain't got nothin' in you
'Cause it takes some livin', to get good at givin'
And givin' love is just where you could teach them a thing or two.

Older women, make beautiful lovers
Older women, they understand
I've been around some, and I have discovered
That older women know just how to please a man.

Great song...80's country, sigh...reminds me of my childhood.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: GUEST,Keith A at work
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 11:05 AM

Bold Fenian Men features an old woman remembering

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: GUEST,Brian Hoskin
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 08:21 AM

I think Rodney Crowell's Song For Life kind of fits in here somewhere.

Brian

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Grab
Date: 07 Feb 01 - 07:32 AM

Prettiest Eyes by Beautiful South. Lovely romantic song, loving someone as they are.

Grab.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Metchosin
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 04:04 PM

CAT'S IN THE CRADLE by Harry Chapin, mind you it wouldn't be one that you would be inclined to sing at some sort of celebratory gathering.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 03:42 PM

Older Women Make Better Lovers

I forgot who it's by...several (well, many) years ago, after surgery I was taking my first walk in the yard, and a haywagon full of teenaged boys hauling hay in the field across from my house broke into a chorus of that song. I think I cried. ;-)

Subject: Lyr Add: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? (Rogers)
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 03:27 PM

Thanks fer reminding me of this one... I haven't played it in a while, but have felt like I should!

;-)

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
Garnet Rogers
Off the CD "Summer Lightning"

What's wrong with this picture? There's something not right
My eyes feel like marbles man My teeth are too tight
What's wrong with my mirror That's not the boy that we love
My mouth tastes like the inside of a truck-driver's glove
What's wrong with this picture?

What's wrong with this picture? Who put grey in my beard
How did that happen, my god I look weird
Is that my real waist line are those really my thighs
Who shrunk these jeans down to half of their size
What's wrong with this picture?

How did I get here, my god I look bad
I went to bed a young man now I look like somebody's dad
Where did the years go Where is my hair?
The way that the time flies it just isn't fair
What's wrong with this picture?

What's wrong with this picture? Think I'll go back to bed
I'll spend the day with the covers pulled up over my head
'cause ya can't fight the reaper man, he's quick and he's mean
I feel just like the Porche that belonged to James Dean
What's wrong with this picture

Where did my life go? I had so much planned
Who took my hourglass? I lost all my sand
How did this happen? Man give me a break
I thought I was hitting my stride I got left at the gate
What's wrong with this picture?

It's done in a great, kinda angry blues rock thing... really cool!

;-)

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: GUEST,bflat
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 02:59 PM

Guest,winterbright, The song you are looking for in Rise Up Singing is: Get Up and Go. It is in the Time and changes section.

As for my own contribution to this thread, how about: TRY TO REMEMBER. The lyrics are in the digitrad so I won't recap here. I've always enjoyed this song because it fits the romantic in me.

Ellen

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: GUEST,winterbright
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 01:43 PM

How do I know my youth is all spent?/ My get up and go has got up and went/ But in spite of it all I'm able to grin/ and think of the places my get up has been.../ Check it out in Rise Up Singing. Also:

I want to live to be an old woman/ shawl around my shoulders, gum a piece o' chicken/ I want to live to be an old woman, sittin' on the porch. Linda somebody; I can track it down - it's not in Rise Up.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 06 Feb 01 - 06:11 AM

Has anyone mentioned the old music hall song beloved of pantomime dames and other drag acts: NO-ONE LOVES A FAIRY WHEN SHE'S FORTY"?
RtS

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: ray bucknell
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 03:33 PM

Has anybody mentioned Tom Paxton's "Modern Maturity" or, even better, his "NOT TONIGHT, MARIE"?

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Pseudolus
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 02:45 PM

Being a big Jimmy Buffett fan I would have to mention "A PIRATE LOOKS AT FORTY". Another song I always kinda liked was a song that George Burns recorded called "I Wish I was Eighteen Again".

Frank

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 02:33 PM

There is of course that Warren Zevon song about your S... being F...ed Up

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 12:19 PM

Um, I thought, and the trad agrees, that Pete Seeger wrote that great Get up and Go song [MY GET UP AND GO HAS GOT UP AND WENT], but I really like knowing that about Lee Hayes! I can't think of anything else except to note that Americans are very child-oriented, and do not seem to prize being older. Look at trying to find a NICE birthday card for someone turning anything more than 25... so perhaps that's why the dearth of good English-language songs prizing old age... we get HELLO IN THERE. I'd like to see what people from other cultures, especially if there are any people from Pays en Voie de Sous-developpement around... I bet there are nice African songs about old age, for instance!

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: LR Mole
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 12:07 PM

Song the Kingston Trio did: "When I was young/And dreams were new/Iloved a girl/Who looked like you/I saaw her fce/in mountain streams/I lingered there and lost myself in dreams..." Good tune, and they sang in in soft unison, not quasi-barbershop. I'll look up the writer tonight.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: NicP
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 12:06 PM

Rosie Asplen wrote a song a while back about the vicissitudes of growing old. From memory failing 'cos I hit forty myself this month, the chorus went "Oh God, me Mother's turned forty, You think she'd be ready to stop, But somebody told her that life begins there Now she's gone right over the top" I'll try and dig out the rest of it, or if you see Rosie on the UK scene, I'm sure she would be delighted to pass it on. Cheers NicP

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 11:34 AM

Southern gospel singer Jake Hess on the Gaither Homecoming Hour cable TV show, singing Wore Out. Very funny.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: GUEST,Lynn T
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 08:45 AM

Garnet Rogers has a good one, fairly recent, called "What's Wrong With This Picture" -- lots of desperately cutting details about how his middle-aged image in the mirror ain't him.

Lynn

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Trevor
Date: 05 Feb 01 - 08:11 AM

Hey Deckman, you've been listening to Fred Wedlock!

Apart from 'The Oldest Swinger in Town' my two favourite songs of all time are 'Grandad' by Clive Dunn (it was so nice to hear it on the Ed Stewart show yesterday) and 'Grandma We Love You', by the St Winifred's School Choir.

And they're coming to take me away.

(Wasn't that a banned number 1 hit in the UK)

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Stewie
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 09:37 PM

Here's a few good'uns:

Sydney Carter's 'Silver in the Stubble'
Tim O'Brien's 'Like I Used to Be
Pete Mundey's 'TAKE YOUR TIME' (recorded by Yetties)
John Verner's 'Where've you been' (recorded by Kathy Mattea)
Hugh Moffatt's 'Jack and Lucy'
'JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO'

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 08:41 PM

I didn't mean the traditional Irish song,"Still I Love Him," which IS is Digitrad (but has nothing to do with growing old). Mine begins, "Who's this young man with bright hair shining." Chorus is:
Still I love him, still I love him,
Though he knows it, still I tell him
Every mornin, again at evenin,
Night and noonin, still I love him.

Sure are some good songs named above. Someone thinking of doing an album about growing old? Might be a good idea, but who'd be around to buy it?!!

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 07:37 PM

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the Beatles, "When I'm 64"........

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Mark Clark
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 07:26 PM

Don't forget That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine. I posted the lyrics in another thread along with a link to a recording of this great old standard.

      - Mark

Subject: Lyr Add: BANKS OF THE DEE^^^
From: bill\sables
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 06:15 PM

BANKS OF THE DEE

Last Saturday night on the banks of the Dee
I met an old man in distress I could see
We sat down together and to me he did say
I've lost my employment 'cause my hair it's turned grey

Chorus;

I am an old miner aged fifty and six
If I could get lots I would raffle my picks
I'd raffle them, I'd sell them I'd throw them away
For I can't get employment my hair has turned grey

When I was a young chap I was just like the rest
Each day in the pit I'd do my very best
When I had a loose place I'd be filling all day
Now at fifty and six my hair it's turned grey

Last Wednesday night to the reckoning I went
To the colliery office I went straight fornenst
I'd just got my pay packet, I was walking away
When they gave me my notice 'cause my hair it's turned grey

Now all you young fellows, it's you that's to blame
If you get good places, you'll do just the same
If you get good prices you'll hew them away
But you're sure to regret it when your hair it's turned grey.

Bill

Subject: Lyr Add: GEORDIE BLACK
From: bill\sables
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 06:11 PM

GEORDIE BLACK

Ma name is Geordie Black, aa'm getting very aad.
Aav'e hewed tons of coal in me time,
An' when aa wes just a lad, aa could either put or hew.
Oot the others aa could aalways tak the shine.
Aa'm gannin doon the hill, Aa cannet use the pick.
The maister hes ne pity on aad bones.
So noo aa'm on the bank, an'aa while me time away
Amang the bits o' lads wi' pickin oot the stones.

Oh me name is Geordie Black. In me time aa've been a crack.
An' aa've warked baith in the Gyuss an' in the Betty.
An' the coals upon the Tyne oot the others tak the shine,
An' we lick 'em aal for iron doon at Hawks's.

Noo when aa wes just a lad carried on me father's back,
An' away he wad take me te the pit.
An' te get in the cage an' te gan doon belaw
'Twas enough te mak a youngster tak a fit.
For te sit an' keep a door midst the darkness an' the gloom
Ay, mony an 'oor be messel,
An' te hear the aaful shots thar rummelled roond the pit,
An' the lumps o' roondy coal come doon pellmell.

Noo aa'll say good neet, for it's nearly time te lowse.
An' aa've done me best te please ye, ivery one.
Young lads that's here the neet, mind, de the thing that's reet.
In this warld that's the way te get on.
So here's success te trade baith on the Wear an' Tyne,
Aa divent like te see the place se slack.
For if wor pit lies idle, ne pay note comes teneet,
An' it grieves the heart o' poor Geordie Black

Bill

---

Note: Bill's version was added to the Digital Tradition in 2001. -Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: reggie miles
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 05:32 PM

My friend Robert "Oneman" Johnson wrote one called "I'm Gettin' Thick In The Middle, Gettin' Thin On Top".

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: GUEST,Willa
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 04:22 PM

How about "THE FOLKS WHO LIVE ON THE HILL?"
Some day, we'll sit and look at that same old view,
Just we two; Darby and Joan,
Who used to be Jack and Jill.
And we'll be pleased to be called,
What we have always been called –
The folk who live on the hill.

"Side by Side"
When they've all had their troubles and parted,
We’ll be the same as we started,
Traveling our road,
Sharing our load,
Side by side.

"SILVER THREADS AMONG THE GOLD"
But my darling you will be, will be,
Always young and fair to me.

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 20-Mar-02.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 04:05 PM

I did one for my Mom & Dad's 60th Wedding Anniversary some years ago, called, "Still I Love Him." If you don't mind mild sentimentality, it may be on digitrad. It's been recorded but only on a cassette, "Jean Ritchie Concert." As I just celebrated my own 50th Anniversary, and only a beginner on computer, haven't learnt how to give you a tune yet (but I will!)...if you're at all interested, I'll see that you find it.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Mark Clark
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 03:53 PM

Joe Glazer wrote a song that I can't seem to find anywhere just now. Maybe someone can help. The refrain goes:

Too old to work, too old to work,
Too old to work and too young to die,
Who'll take care of you, how'll you get by,
When you're too old to work and you're too young to die.

I think Pete Seeger sings this one and Utah Phillips too.

      - Mark

Subject: Lyr Add: ALL USED UP (Utah Phillips)
From: GUEST,Martin Rich
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 03:27 PM

This one sung by Roy Bailey. Bruce "Utah" Phillips is from Spokane.

ALL USED UP
Utah Phillips
As recorded by Utah Phillips on "The Telling Takes Me Home" (1997)

        G
  I spent my whole life making somebody rich.
    C                                D7
  I busted my ass for that son of a bitch,
           G        D7           C       G
  And he left me to die like a dog in a ditch,
                  D7      G
  And told me I'm all used up.

He used up my labor; he used up my time.
He plundered my body and squandered my mind,
And gave me a pension of handouts and wine,
And told me I'm all used up.

My kids are in hock to a god you call work,
Slaving their lives out for some other jerk,
And my youngest in Frisco just made shipping clerk.
And he don't know I'm all used up.

The young people reaching for power and gold
Don't have respect for anything old.
For pennies, they're bought and for promises sold.
Someday they'll all be used up.

They use up the oil; they use up the trees.
They use up the air and they use up the sea.
Well, how about you, friend, and how about me?
What's left when we're all used up?

I'll finish my life in this crummy hotel.
It's lousy with bugs and, my god, what a smell!
But my plumbing still works and I'm clear as a bell.
Don't tell me I'm all used up.

Outside my window, the world passes by,
Gives me a handout and spits in my eye.
And no one can tell me 'cause no one knows why
I'm living but I'm all used up.

Sometimes in my dreams, I sit by a tree.
My life is a book of how things used to be.
And kids gather round and they listen to me.
And they don't think I'm all used up.

And there's songs and there's laughter and things I can do,
And all that I've learned I can give back to you.
I'd give my last breath just to make it come true.
No, I'm not all used up.

They use up the oil and they use up the trees.
They use up the air and they use up the sea.
Well, how about you, friend, and how about me?
What's left when we're all used up?

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 03:09 PM

"The Way You Look Tonight", Tom Waits' "Martha", Crash Test Dummies "Afternoons and Coffeespoons" and Mose Allison "Was" (When Is Becomes Was). Not depressing, just lovely.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 02:36 PM

I love Shel Silverstein's 'We'll Never Be This Young Again". And of course, 'Time'.

eb

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 02:13 PM

Autumn Gold. To be found in The Mudcat Songbook.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: jaze
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 11:46 AM

Mary Chapin Carpenter's version of "Grow Old With Me" is beautiful. Wasn't that written by John Lennon?

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 11:12 AM

If you like the melancholy, try "BAY OF FUNDY" by Gordon Bok.
"..When you run your Easting down, Don't go down to Fundy Bay, She'll wear your time away." and "Dont mind the wind and cold, Just don't like this growing old, Cape Sable's horn blows all night long, Wonder Why,.."

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Deckman
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 10:40 AM

This is a great topic. These days I perform a lot at nursing homes, that way I've got a captive audience.(I just take their walkers away). My favorite is David Mallett's "Light At The End Of The Tunnel." By the way, I'm so old now that it takes me all night to do what I used to do all night! (no charge!) CHEERS, Bob Nelson

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: GUEST,Betsychicago
Date: 04 Feb 01 - 10:23 AM

Minor correction: Steve Goodman was the best known singer of "THE DUTCHMAN," but it was written (and is often performed so movingly that I cry!) by Michael Smith, one of the country's most underrated singer-songwriters.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: The Fenian
Date: 14 Oct 97 - 01:59 PM

How about THE 200-YEAR-OLD ALCOHOLICby Tommy Makem. That's a pretty cool song.

Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM
From: PattyG
Date: 13 Oct 97 - 10:13 PM

Oh! "When I Grow Too Old To Dream"!! What a *wonderful* old song!
(To me, this is a funeral song, though:)

WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM
Words, Oscar Hammerstein II; music, Sigmund Romberg; ©1934.
As recorded by Nelson Eddy, 1935.

VERSE: We have been gay,
Going our way.
Life has been beautiful; we have been young.
After you've gone,
Life will go on
Like an old song we have sung.

CHORUS: When I grow too old to dream, I'll have you to remember.
When I grow too old to dream, your love will live in my heart.
So kiss me, my sweet, and so let us part,
And when I grow too old to dream, that kiss will live in my heart.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Jon W.
Date: 13 Oct 97 - 03:59 PM

Peter,

"Rabbit" was from New Orleans, rowed a boat on Lake Ponchartrain for tourists, and sang to entertain them I suppose. I think this was his only recording, but not sure. The album has quite a bit of good blues on it, from artists from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana (places west of the Delta). I would recommend it if you can stand Yazoo's faithful reproduction of the sound of well used 78's.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Peter T.
Date: 11 Oct 97 - 12:44 PM

Dear Jon, Don't know anything about "Rabbit Brown", so must get the album -- the lyrics intrigue. Was he a Texan? Yours, Peter

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Robert Lee
Date: 11 Oct 97 - 02:37 AM

"WHEN I GROW TOO OLD TO DREAM" is a very beautiful song that was a particular favourite of my grandmother's. But more about contemplating old age than actually about getting older.

Subject: Lyr Add: TIMES AIN'T NOW NOTHING LIKE THEY USED TO
From: Jon W.
Date: 10 Oct 97 - 07:28 PM

Here's a rarely heard blues song, recorded by Richard "Rabbit" Brown in 1927. I like the first three verses best myself but you can pick and choose your favorites.

TIMES AIN'T NOW NOTHING LIKE THEY USED TO BE

Times ain't now nothing like they used to be (2x)
And I'm telling you all the truth, oh take it from me

I done seen better days, but I'm putting up with these (2x)
I would have a much better time but these girls now are so hard to please.

'Cause I was born in the country, she thinks I'm easy to rule (2x)
She try to hitch me to a wagon, she wanna drive me like a mule.

You know I bought the groceries, and I pay the rent (2x)
She try to make me wash her clothes but I got good common sense.

I say if you don't want me, why don't you tell me so (2x)
(?)... here like a man that ain't got nowhere to go.

I've been givin' you sugar for sugar, let you get salt for salt (2x)
And if you can't get along with me, well it's your own fault.

How do you want me to love you, you keep a-treatin' me mean (2x)
You're my daily thought, and my nightly dream

Sometime I think that you too sweet to die (2x)
And another time I think, you oughtta be buried alive.

This is on the album "Blues of the Western States" on Yazoo Records.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: TomG
Date: 09 Oct 97 - 03:10 PM

See my message under this same heading also of today's date re "Younger than Spring" and "Once Upon a Time"

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Peter T.
Date: 08 Oct 97 - 09:50 AM

Gee, original songs. Re: Chanson des Vieux Amants, I am reasonably sure that Edith Piaf didn't sing it. It is a Brel tune. There is a somewhat mangled version (though beautifully sung as ever) by Judy Collins on her old Wildflowers album. Yours, Peter P. S. The rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins was once interviewed on the subject of becoming an aging rocker, and at one point (to the female interviewer) he said, "I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was".

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Justin Kodner
Date: 08 Oct 97 - 09:48 AM

There are so many. I agree about Stan Rogers' "Lies" and Prine's "HELLO IN THERE", and Paxton's "NOT TONIGHT, MARIE", but I'm surprised no one mentioned Steve Goodman's "THE DUTCHMAN". How about "MY GET UP AND GO HAS GOT UP AND WENT", Lee Hayes. Did you know that in his last years, after his legs had to be amputated (diabetes) he used to answer the phone, "Lee Hayes here...more or less"?

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Shula
Date: 08 Oct 97 - 06:12 AM

Dear Alan,

Good stuff there. Hope you're in the DT.

Shula

P.S. If I asked, very, very sweetly, would you write just one leetle beety ol' verse to sum up, or finish off, as the case may be, the jig for "THE OLD SAILOR"? It might get others going. Thank you most humbly. S.

Subject: Lyr Add: GETTING OLDER (Alan Foster)
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 08 Oct 97 - 04:56 AM

G'day,
Here's another one:-

GETTING OLDER
(Alan Foster)

My mid-life crisis is setting in
As I try to control my double chin
And iron out my wrinkled skin
And I know I'm getting older.

They told me life begins at fifty
The age when all is neat and nifty
But the look in their eye was sharp and shifty
And they know I'm getting older.

I can run as fast as I ever ran
And to chase young women is my plan
But they know I'm just a harmless old man
'Cause they see I'm getting older.

My memory keeps on getting worse
It's just another little curse
Now what was the subject of this verse?
I must be getting older.

When your hair falls out and your eyesight goes
And the only thing you've got that grows
Is your waistline so it hides your toes
You know you're getting older.

I'll end this rhyme before I ruin it
Before you all start misconstruin' it
But as long as I can keep on doin' it*
I don't mind getting older.

*i.e. getting older.

Cheers,
Alan