G
He’s out there somewhere every night
C
G
Where the music’s playing loud
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
C
G
Thirty-nine again
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
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