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Artist: John Lennon
Canonical path: /john-lennon/life-begins-at-40
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Life Begins At 40
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Life Begins At 40
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We'd like to welcome you here to the dakota country and western club
And in return for miss yoko ono's wonderful gift of a very strange
I'd like, this morning, to sing you a little ditty that occured to me in the throes
Of my sleep
It's called life begins at 40
They say life begins at forty
Age is just a state of mind
If all that's true
You know, that I've been dead for thirty-nine
And if life begins at forty
Well, I hope it ain't the same
It's been tough enough without that stuff
I don't wanna to be born again
Well, I tried to sweep the slate clean
With a new broom ev'ry day
If that don't work
I'll jerk around until my next birtday
Yeah, life begins at forty
Age is just a state of mind
Well, if all that's true
You know that I've been dead for thirty-nine
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