Songs about getting older?

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: reggie miles
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 02:05 AM

I'm Old
by Reggie Miles ©2016 All rights reserved

I'm old, yes I'm old, and I found out today
My tired old frame just gets in the way
So I guess I'll move on and try to find me some place
Where a man can grow older and die with some grace

I've done so many things with the times of my life
I courted an beauty and I made her my wife
I found a good job and then we settled down
Bought a small house on the outskirts of town

I raised a fine family. Shall I tell you their names?
There's Johnny and Mary and Annie and James
But now they've all gone and I'm bent from the wear
With withered old limbs and grey shaggy hair

I'm old, yes I'm old, and I found out today
My tired old frame, just gets in the way
I'm off on my own, after all of these years
Filled with laughter and love and sadness and tears

The American Dream, I've lived it you see
Spent all of my life in this land of the free
I've leveled her mountains and raped her great plains
Damned mighty rivers and poisoned her rains

I've reaped vast wealth, by polluting her soil
I've spoiled her oceans, by spilling her oil
There's not a fish in the sea, nor a bird in the air
That hasn't suffered or died while under my care

I'm old, yes I'm old, and I realized today
My time round here hasn't all gone way
I have no balance in this worldly place
Only struggles and strife over faith, wealth, and race

I have fought mighty battles and wars by the score
I've left millions to starve and ignored the poor
Destruction and death have been my legacy
In the wake of such hate, who cares about me

I've left no solutions only more of the same
No comfort I've given to ease anyone's pain
My words have been lies, my heart's been a stone
I guess it's befitting that I die all alone

I'm old, yes I'm old, and I've naught left to do
But to say my goodbye and farewell to you
And if I should ever pass this way again
I'll try to do better with my time spent here then

Here's a link to the song...

https://www.reverbnation.com/reggiemiles/song/25649864-im-old

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: reggie miles
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 02:21 AM

Grossosity! Reggie Miles written © 2004

Bats flutter in my belfry when I’m dreamin’ in my bed
I’m guessin’ they got in there through these holes here in my head.
I’d like to shed this feelin’ that some day I’ll wake up dead.
I’ve tried a frontal lobotomy and every remedy bottle in front of me.
But nothin’ that I’ve tried has helped this dread.
Sooo! I just cry myself to sleep each night instead.

A big belly full of bicarb bathes a blisterin’ boil,
That bubbles when my troubles begin to foil and uncoil.
This royal pain in th’ gut is due to one unloyal goil.
So I sit and slowly slurp another sip of castor oil.
OOOH! And I play solitaire in solitude with Hoyle.

I collect belly button lint but it doesn’t smell so nice.
So I use a mint deodorant and wash it twice or thrice.
And just in case you’re thinkin’ that this vice ain’t very nice.
My freezer’s full of fresh and minty little linty balls of ice.
OOOH! I keep ’em free from lice as linty balls of ice.

Green and crusty boogers they reside inside my nose.
Those slimy sinus stalactites clog my nasal breathin’ holes.
And there’s fungus here among us growin’ twixt ten smelly toes.
And the stink’ll make you think it must be time to change your hose.
OOOH! The stench’ll curl your nose hairs heaven knows.

Earwax slowly trickles down my eerie ear canals.
And toe jam jams the crevices of all my toenail pals.
An avalanche of dandruff boulders showers down upon my shoulders,
And my doctor nods and jots another note inside my folder.
OOOH! And his nurse says I’ll get worse as I get older.

Halitosis haunts my speech and my cornfusional orations.
As my teeth decay and rot away from cavity excavations.
Puss filled acne polka dots my face. Pimples are poppin’ up everyplace.
I’m a disgrace as an example of the human race.
OOOH! It looks like I may be a hopeless case.

Unspeakable odors waft up from down below.
They breezily squeeze with ease between my knees as they flow.
Whiff my pungent armpit aroma, and you will end up in a coma.
You’ll be longin’ for the pleasant scent of ol’ Tacoma.
OOOH! You’d rather have a squirtin’ skunk inside your home. AHHH!

Two bloodshot orbs gaze back at me when in the mirror I stare.
A wrinkled road map decorates the face that’s gawkin’ there.
Soon my receding hairline’ll leave my head completely bare.
I don’t know why I bother livin’ when this life is so unfair.
OOOH! Now applaud and pretend you even care.

Here a video of me performing this one live at GrangeStock IV Grossosity!

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: BobL
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 02:40 AM

Joe F, we haven't missed out on Tom Lehrer - see 07 Feb 01, 11:48 PM

Advantages of age (in the UK at least, for the first two):
1) Free prescriptions
2) Free bus travel
3) Your time's your own
4) The world seems to be increasingly filled with young and beautiful people.

And do not the T-shirts of the very same people who once advocated Teen Power, now proclaim that Old Guys Rule?

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 07:31 AM

When I'm 64. The Beatles.    This was mentioned before but here it is on Youtube.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: GUEST,Pseudonymous
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 07:43 AM

When I'm 64 not much use at a certain age!

I'm at the age when I wonder if I'll live long enough to get a bus pass or a state pension: they keep putting the ages up.

The T=shirt I want is one that says 'I may be old, but I got to see all the best bands'. But they don't do long sleeve for women. Soz, this isn't a 'T-shirts about getting older thread'.

Hmm. Well, they probably still do! :)

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 08:25 AM

"Jim, yes, that's the song, All Used Up: glad you found it."
Beautiful song - still brings a lump...

I was always rather fond of Pete Mundey's song, 'Take Your Time" until I heard a Liverpool audience roar out
"Take your time, you dirty old man"

There are still places on the planet screaming out for missionaries!!
Jim Carroll

TAKE YOUR TIME
(by Pete Mundey)
Chorus
So take your time, me lovely old lad
Oh there ain't no need for to hurry
For as long as you're able to wind up me clock
Then I have no need for to worry.

You first wound me clock up on our wedding day
You promised t'would always be striking
Though the spring's getting weaker and feeble the tick
It's still very much to me liking.
Chorus

I mind the time when we were young
You worked at the hedgin' and dykin'
Oh you'd go out at dawn and work through till dusk
And come home for me clock to be strikin'.
Chorus

As time goes by, our children's grown up
We're soon making wedding vows binding
Oh I told all me daughters the one thing I've learned
Make sure your clocks always needs winding.
Chorus

And now that we're nearing the end of our days
And you are so tired and grey, love
It still pleases me so when you wind up me clock
And it will till the end of my days, love.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 06:12 PM

When I'm 64? Well past that now! 64 is the new 44! (or do I mean vice versa?)

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: open mike
Date: 30 Jun 18 - 11:36 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTeYD3Za_2Q    Memory Song
Tom Rush - Looking for My Wallet and Car Keys - Kerrville Folk Festival, 2015 (one message posted on another version of this says it was Steve Walters, who wrote and first recorded the song.?)

Subject: Lyr Add: GETTING OLDER EVERY DAY (Big Bill Broonzy
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 01 Jul 18 - 02:44 PM

You can hear this recording at YouTube


GETTING OLDER EVERY DAY
As recorded by Big Bill Broonzy, 1940.

You say you're gettin' old; now, it' older ev'ry day.
You say you're gettin' old; yeah, you say you gettin' older ev'ry day.
Ah, you ain't but fifty. Hoo, Lord! Boy, you shouldn't feel that way.

Now when you get so old you can't work at no mill,
Yeah, when you get so old, now, boy, you can't work at a mill,
Now, don't you make no dates, hoo, Lord! But at that you can't fill.

Now, if your luck don't change, boy, don't you be sad.
Yeah, if your luck don't change, now, buddy, don't you be sad.
Now, you really gotta learn what you take the good now with the bad.

Now, when you get old and your good gal don't want you 'round,
Hoo, Lord! When you get old, and your good gal don't want you 'round,
Now, you know you didn't run out o' commission, hoo, boy! I declare you're poor-house bound.

Now, don't laugh, buddy; now, I didn't nobody's downfall.
Hoo, lawd! Don't laugh, buddy; I meanin' nobody's downfall;
Because if your woman would check up on you, hoo, Lord! She'd put another mule in your stall.

Subject: I wanna live to be an old woman - what's the rest!
From: GUEST,Petrawiggin
Date: 31 May 19 - 10:47 PM

Help! I am looking for the full lyrics to a song that I can't find anywhere except that there is a small reference to it in this thread @GUEST.winterbright, mentioned it. Here is what I remember of the song:

I want to live to be an old woman and old woman and old woman,
I want to live to be an old woman sittin' on the porch!
I want to live to be an old woman shawl around my shoulders, gum a piece of chicken,
I want to live to be an old woman sittin' on the porch!
I want to live to be a deep sea diver, a parachute jumper and an old woman,
sittin' on the porch and laughing at the sunset, diggin' my new home!

Does anyone know more of the words?!?!?!?

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: John C. Bunnell
Date: 01 Jun 19 - 12:05 PM

I am astonished at two omissions from Broadway:

"(You're) Timeless to Me" (from «i»Hairspray«/i»)
"No Time at All" (from «i»Pippin«/i»"

I won't try to do links from my phone, but possibly later....

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: GUEST,G
Date: 01 Jun 19 - 04:36 PM

Burns"s "Wad Ye Dae That"
Jim Carroll--23/6/2018.
Lying in bed {where else} I composed a middle verse for the above song.

"Forsooth young man I wad be laith
Tae turn doon sic an offer
But tell me lad whit likes yer graith
And is it aa in order
Guidwife ye needna spier that gait
for it"s baith lang and fat
And made for your contentment dame
I"se warrant that.

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: olddude
Date: 01 Jun 19 - 08:04 PM

One I wrote
https://youtu.be/nejTuZaWI-I

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: Leadbelly
Date: 02 Jun 19 - 06:14 PM

Curd Juergens, a well-known german actor, once recorded a song titled by "60 Jahre und kein bisschen weise" which means 60 years old and by no means being wise...

Subject: RE: Songs about getting older?
From: GUEST,Warwick Slade
Date: 03 Jun 19 - 04:31 AM

My getting old songs are on Spotify on the Live at Poole Crematorium albu
Check it out