Jerry Lee Lewis Thirty Nine And Holding (live Version) Lyrics

Thirty Nine And Holding (live Version) Lyrics

Thirty-Nine And Holding (Track#2)

Jerry Lee Lewis

(J. Foster, B.
Rice)

Album: Live Wembley Arena

London November 4, 1982

Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com







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)



Spoken:

He's thirty-nine and he's dreamin'.







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