C'mon Sixty Five

Somewhere on the old Kern River there's an old cane pole

That waits for me patiently this city job might drag me down

But one fine day I'm gonna be set free wait and see

And then I'm gonna go down to where the waters touch the sky

Where the old men's laughter goes like a lullaby

Sixty five c'mon sixty five it's a sin to waste my life away

But I can't wait till I'm sixty five c'mon sixty five

There's a gold watch if I get out alive past sixty five

Now somewhere in my memories I recall a boy

Seventeen full of dreams dreams and life just stripped away

A layer at a time now what's left ain't hardly me

Oh but I saved up a little here and there to get me by

Enough to mend my ragged wings and once again I'll fly

Sixty five c'mon sixty five it's a sin to waste my life away

But I can't wait till I'm sixty five c'mon sixty five

Lord the object of the games is to survive past sixty five

I've heard it said that hard work never did a body's body

Any harm well they were wrong cause all these years of lifting things

I should of left alone took their toll my will was strong

And the day that I walk out of here I'll hold my head up high

Then I'll pawn this stupid watch and kiss thirty years goodbye

Now somewhere on the old Kern River there's an old cane pole

That waits for me patiently