G
He's out there somewhere every night
C G
Where the music's playing loud
He's doing all those fifty's steps
A7 D7
He's in a 1980 crowd
G
Dim lights hide the mileage line
C G
The Clairol hides the gray
C G
And he won't mention anything
D7 G
To give his old age away
C G
Oh he's thirty-nine and holding
D7 G
Holding everything he can
C G
From seventeen to twenty-five
A7 D7
To prove he's still a man
G
He's holding to a candle
C G
And it's a-burning at both ends
C G
He's thirty-nine and holding
D7 G
Holding everything he can
You can bet he'll never see
C G
Thirty-nine again
He should have turned loose long ago
A7 D7
But still he a hanging it in
G
He still thinks that he's the man
C G
That he once used to be
C G
He's thirty-nine and holding
D7 G
And acting twenty-three