Thirty-nine & Holding Lyrics - Killer Country - Jerry Lee Lewis

Thirty-Nine And Holding (Track#2) 

Jerry Lee Lewis 

(J. Foster, B. Rice) 

London November 4, 1982 

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 

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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 

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 

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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 

Spoken: 

He's thirty-nine and he's dreamin'. 

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