Thirty-Nine And Holding

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