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Lather was thirty years old today,
They took away all of his toys.
His mother sent newspaper clippings to him,
About his old friends who'd stopped being boys.
There was Harwitz E. Green, just turned thirty-three,
His leather chair waits at the bank.
And Sergent Dow Jones, twenty-seven years old,
Commanding his very own tank.
Lather (Grace Slick) on Crown of Creation by Jefferson Airplane (1968)
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Ages 9 and 12 in a song from 1928, whose title and subject I would rather not mention: http://makeashorterlink.com/?I222527D; scroll down to the highlights
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Thirteen years old, sweet as rose
Every petal of her wafer thin
Love will make you mine
Creep up from behind
Get you jumping out of your skin
Angel...it's sink or swim
--Deep in the Heart; U2
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You thought you had found yourself a good girl,
One who would love you and give you the world.
Then you find, babe, that you've been misused,
Come to me, honey, I'll do what you choose.
(I want you to) tell mama
All about it.
Well, tell mama
What you need
Tell your mama, babe,
What you want.
Tell your mama, babe.
Whoa! an' I'll make everything alright.
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You already know what you need, man.
You already know what you're looking for,
Man, i found out out at fourteen years old
And I been lookin' for it every since, too, man.
-- Tell Mama by Janis Joplin
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Ya I can see that you're just fifteen years old
But I don't want your I.D.
Ya I can see that you're so far from home
This ain't no hanging matter,
No it ain't no capital crime
-- Stray Cat Blues; Rolling Stones
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John Henry was a little boy,
'Bigger than the palm of your hand,
'Time that boy, he was nine years old
Driving spikes like a man
Driving spikes like a man.
John Henry was a little boy,
Sitting on his mammy's knee,
He picked up a hammer and a little bit of steel:
"Hammer's gonna be the death of me,
Hammer's gonna be the death of me."
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At the far end of the scale:
It ain’t necessarily so
It ain’t necessarily so
De t’ings dat yo li’ble
To read in de Bible
It ain’t necessarily so
Methus’lah lived nine hundred years
Methus’lah lived nine hundred years
But who calls dat livin’
When no gal’ll give in
To no man what’s nine hundred years
I’m preachin’ dis sermon to show
It ain’t nessa, ain’t nessa
It ain’t necessarily so!
-- It Ain't Necessarily So; George & Ira Gershwin, from Porgy & Bess
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oops! after being publicly corrected, i guess i should go back and delete my post..
or maybe-- i could reluctantly admit..
yeah, i guess for some people, a song written in the 1970's, could have been learned in childhood, and be thought an old song...
or i could just let it pass..
i could be wrong in making the comment, and Max could be wrong to nit pic, and Maveric could be wrong to join the battle.. or it could just be fun, and and i can be somewhat right (since the comments were made in the late 1970's, by adults, the four green fields was an old song) and max is right too, (but are we doing letting young whipper-snappers like him post?) and Mav could be right.. and no ones feelings got hurt, because we are adults, and behave like adults, and not like spoiled children, who, make problems for everyone..
no one told Silk Muse to remove her post... and AnnaS's post to my ear, sounded more like some one stunned that they missed the train..
rather than a complaint or being critical, she was a deer caught in the headlights saying What are those interesting liSMASH!
hey, but i could be wrong about this too! but what harm does it do to give AnnaS the benifit of the doubt? if she continued to complain, and RANT, again and again, and to make leading statements, and inuendo (posting with no comment-- such B.S!) then, maybe we could say, hey AnnaS, give it a rest!
but somehow, AnnaS, (and one or two others) are expected to be perfect, and never, ever post a statement that has the least bit of ambiguity.. because if they don't, one or two people will say-- Oh, look-- if you read it upside down, backwards, and inverted, it could be construed to mean something else!
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Hey, I've got "dibs" on The Beatles' When I'm 64 when we get to it!  The Only WO'N!
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