# Songs of a Specific Age **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 26, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129 "2019-06-26T22:54:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/21 "2019-06-27T12:39:40Z")
Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen. What is it about [17 years old](https://www.theodysseyonline.com/17songs-about-being-17)? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/22 "2019-06-27T12:56:22Z")
“My son turned 10 just the other day…” Harry Chapin - _Cat’s in the Cradle_ ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/23 "2019-06-27T13:43:39Z")
\*Son, I’m thirty I only went with your mother 'cause she’s dirty \* [Kinky Afro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8maBsuhHr4) - Shaun Ryder in his pomp. BTW - how about albums with a specific age in them? [Adele](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele#Discography) has rather cornered the market. j ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/24 "2019-06-27T14:05:07Z")
4 Non Blondes “What’s Up”: \*Twenty-five years and my life is still Trying to get up that great big hill of hope For a destination \* Rolling Stones “Stray Cat Blues”: _I can see that you’re fifteen years old No I don’t want your I.D._ ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/25 "2019-06-27T15:06:28Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen. Fun fact about that song – the title comes from a conversation which Nicks had with Tom Petty’s first wife, Jane. Jane had said that she had met Tom “at the age of seventeen;” Nicks misheard her (apparently because of Jane’s southern accent) as saying “at the edge of seventeen.” ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/26 "2019-06-27T15:42:53Z")
Cher’s **Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves** _I was sixteen, he was twenty-one Rode with us to Memphis Papa would’ve shot him if he knew what he’d done_ ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/27 "2019-06-27T16:12:03Z")
The Tragically Hip, “38 Years Old” ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/28 "2019-06-27T16:19:22Z")
“18 and Life,” Skid Row. _18 and life you got it, 18 and life to go…_ ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/29 "2019-06-27T17:25:46Z")
Simon and Garfunkel, Old Friends from the Bookends album: “…how terribly strange to be 70.” ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/30 "2019-06-27T17:33:09Z")
“7 Years” by Lukas Graham mentions: 7 years old 11 years old 20 years old 30 years old 60 years old … and that the singer’s father “got sixty-one [years]”. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/31 "2019-06-27T17:45:29Z")
The Jayhawks’ “[Big Star](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWYh9fdYBtA)” starts with: _I’m flat-busted Wild-eyed and free I couldn’t get arrested if I tried A has-been at a mere thirty-five_ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/32 "2019-06-27T17:55:38Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > “When I was seventeen, it was a very good year…” > > -Frank Sinatra Which also mentions the ages of 21 and 35. Harry Belafonte’s [_Man Piaba_](https://genius.com/Harry-belafonte-man-piaba-lyrics) > [@](#): > > I’ve been over land and been over sea > Trying to find answer 'bout the bird and bee > But now that I am ninety three > I don’t give a darn you see ---
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Winger: “Seventeen” Marillion: “Torch Song” “…When you’re hidin’ 29 and you know it ain’t a crime to burn a little brighter now” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/34 "2019-06-27T18:04:15Z")
Paul Simon, Graceland “My traveling companion is nine years old He is the child of my first marriage” ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/35 "2019-06-27T18:07:52Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > “When I was seventeen, it was a very good year…” > > -Frank Sinatra “When I was seventeen, I had some very good beer…” -Homer Simpson ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/36 "2019-06-27T18:12:51Z")
^ Hey, you’re not Brian McGee! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/37 "2019-06-27T20:07:28Z")
“Who Do You Love?” by everybody and his sister "I’m 22, I don’t mind dyin’/ Who do you love?’ “She’s 19 Years Old” Muddy Waters on \* Live in Mississippi\* ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/38 "2019-06-27T21:12:02Z")
In Vietnam he was 19. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/39 "2019-06-27T21:24:33Z")
_Smacks forehead_ Of course, Dammit! _Last time I saw Marie, she was waving me goodbye With hurry-home drops on her cheek that trickled from her eye Marie is only 6 years old, information, please Try to put me through to her in Memphis, Tennessee_ Now that’s worth including just for _…hurry-home drops on her cheek…_ Just beautiful. Bless you, Chuck Berry. [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ezeUM6c74). It’s the decent thing to do. j ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/40 "2019-06-28T02:10:37Z")
Richard Thompson’s 1952 Vincent Black Lightning I fought with the law since I was 17 I’m 21 years and might make 22. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129.md?page=3)