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Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis
Lead Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Bill Rice
Bill Rice
Songwriter
Jerry Foster
Jerry Foster
Songwriter

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He's out there somewhere every night
Where the music's playing loud
Doing all the fifties steps
In a 1980 crowd
The dim lights hide his mileage lines
The Clairol hides the gray
And he won't mention anything
That gives his age away
Lord, he's thirty-nine and holdin'
Holding everything he can
From seventeen to twenty-five
To prove he's still a man
He's holding to a candle
And it's burning at both ends
He's thirty-nine and holding
Holding everything he can
You can bet he'll never see
Thirty-nine, again
He should have turned loose long ago
But still-a he's a-hangin' it in
He still thinks that he's the man
That he used to be
He's thirty-nine and holding
And acting twenty-three
Lord, he's thirty-nine and holdin'
Holdin' everything he can
From seventeen to twenty-five
To prove he's still a man
He's holding to a candle
My God, it's burning at both ends!
He's thirty-nine and holding
Holding everything he can
Written by: Bill Rice, Jerry G. Foster

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