Song Description

nothing takes more courage than growing old

Lyrics

Growing Old

Driving with my dad down and old dirt road
heading to the lake a back way he knows
when the radio played a song from the ninteen seventies
he wiped a tear with the back end of his sleeve
he said " Son it's hard to believe, but

CHORUS: I heard Kristofferson in Jackson Hole
when Bobby Magee was a few years old
when the Dirt Band played in an Aspen Bar
Mr. Bojangels and then Rave On
when we'd work all day and party til the dawn
when a hang over didn't hang so long
but that was two wives and four small towns ago
nothing takes more courage than growing old. "

I felt the gravel underneath the wheels
the creaking of the cab on some rusted steel
I wondered how I would feel when I turned fifty five
Like my Dad I know I'm going to be suprised
I hope I live half of his nine lives

Chorus: He heard ..

bridge : it's been broken hearts, broken dreams
but some dreams I've kept together
Son it's the living you do right now that
make the memories that last forever

Chorus:


David Rebb Firman
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