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Artist: Jerry Lee Lewis
Canonical path: /jerry-lee-lewis/thirty-nine-and-holding
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Thirty-nine And Holding
Read Thirty-nine And Holding lyrics by Jerry Lee Lewis on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Thirty-nine And Holding
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He's out there somewhere every night
The music's playin' loud
He's doing all-a those fifty's steps
He's in a 1980 crowd
Dim lights hide the milage line
Clairol hides the gray
And he won't mention anything
To give his old age away
Oh Lord, he's thirty-nine an he's holdin'
He's holdin' everything that he can
>From seventeen to twenty-five
He'll prove he's still a man
Hey boy, you're holding to a candle
And it's a-burning at both ends
Thirty-nine and holding
A-holdin' everything that I can
(Instrumental, piano and fiddle solo)
Well, now you can bet he'll never see
Thirty-nine, again
Son, you oughta given up a long time ago
But you just keep on hangin' in
He still thinks that he's the man
That he once used to be
Boy, you're just thirty-nine
And you're dreamin'
Acting twenty-three
Oh-oh, he's thirty-nine, he's holdin'
Holdin' everything that he can
>From seventeen to twenty-five
He'll prove he's still a man
He's a-holding to a candle
My God, it's burning at both ends!
He's thirty-nine and he's holdin'
Holdin' everything he can
(Instrumental and piano solo to end)
(JLL)Spoken:
He's thirty-nine and he's dreamin'
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