# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/41 "2019-06-28T03:28:08Z")
The Moody Blues: “I Never Thought I’d Live to Be a Hundred” (and the reprise: “I Never Thought I’d Live to Be a Million”) ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/42 "2019-06-28T12:36:28Z")
Australian band Redgum - [I was only Nineteen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBMFph2eLwI) Ringo Starr - [You’re Sixteen, You’re Beautiful and You’re Mine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkR7u_sOtHI) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/43 "2019-06-28T12:42:21Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > The Beatles, “When I’m Sixty-four.” Will you still need me, will you still feed me… two years from now??? ---
**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 28, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/44 "2019-06-28T13:12:12Z")
“The Ocean” – Led Zeppelin _Now I’m singing all my songs to the girl who won my heart She is only three years old and it’s a real fine way to start_ ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/45 "2019-06-28T13:24:29Z")
I fear I may be outing myself as the lover of terrible punk rock I was in my teen years, but here’s Blink-182 with [“What’s My Age Again?”](https://youtu.be/K7l5ZeVVoCA) _And that’s about the time she walked away from me Nobody likes you when you’re **twenty three** And I’m still more amused by TV shows What the hell is A.D.D.?_ ---
**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 28, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/46 "2019-06-28T15:24:53Z")
I just got back from the road where I heard the heartwarming/breaking tale of Hot Chocolate’s “[It Started With A Kiss](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-VUCGX15Ao)” on the radio: _You made me promise to marry you, I made you promise to be my bride But you were only eight years old and I had just about turned nine (…) Then when you were sixteen I had just turned seventeen I couldn’t hold on to my love, I couldn’t hold on to my dream_ ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/47 "2019-06-28T20:42:35Z")
Won’t you save them for me…even though you’re only three Save Your Kisses for Me - Brotherhood of Man (my first post) ---
**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 28, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/48 "2019-06-28T20:57:01Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > (my first post) Welcome aboard. We all float down here. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/49 "2019-06-29T00:50:19Z")
“How old do you think I am?” he said. I said, well, I didn’t know. He said, “I turned 65 about 11 months ago.” - Tom T. Hall, _Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine_ ---
**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 29, 2019, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/50 "2019-06-29T01:09:49Z")
D’oh, how could I forget the beautiful [Old Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAtDrFdomN4) by Neil Young until now? _Old man, look at my life Twenty-four and there’s so much more_ ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/51 "2019-06-29T01:50:41Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Will you still need me, will you still feed me… two years from now??? Beat you to it! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/52 "2019-06-29T15:45:55Z")
How about 1 day old? The Beatles - Birthday. “I hear it’s your birth day…” mmm ---
**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 29, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129/53 "2019-06-29T22:59:17Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > How about 1 day old? How about [less than one minute old](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K311FKvGd98)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-a-specific-age/836129.md?page=2)