Thirty-Nine And Holding
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recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis
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written by Bill Rice and Jerry Foster
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He's out there somewhere every night
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Where the music's playing loud
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He's doing all those fifty's steps
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He's in a 1980 crowd
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Dim lights hide the mileage line
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The Clairol hides the gray
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And he won't mention anything
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To give his old age away
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Oh he's thirty-nine and holding
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Holding everything he can
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From seventeen to twenty-five
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To prove he's still a man
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He's holding to a candle
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And it's a-burning at both ends
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He's thirty-nine and holding
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Holding everything he can
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You can bet he'll never see
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Thirty-nine again
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He should have turned loose long ago
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But still he a hanging it in
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He still thinks that he's the man
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That he once used to be
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He's thirty-nine and holding
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And acting twenty-three
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Thirty-Nine and Holding
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| Jerry Lee Lewis |
