songs about turning 40

[mercy garland]

Anyone know any good songs about turning 40 (or maybe
just getting older?). I'm making a birthday mix and I'm
stuck...

Thanks,
Mercy
me...@ldeo.columbia.edu

[Michael L Morgan]

mercy garland (me...@ldgo.columbia.edu) wrote:
: Anyone know any good songs about turning 40 (or maybe

: Thanks,
: Mercy
: me...@ldeo.columbia.edu

The Wolfe Tones do a great song about what its like for a folksinger
to turn forty: "Janie Mac, I"m Nearly Forty". Its on their 25th
Anniversary tape.

Michael Morgan
Atlanta, GA

[Frank Reid]

In Article <1995Oct16.1...@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> "me...@ldgo.columbia.edu (mercy garland)" says:
> Anyone know any good songs about turning 40 (or maybe
> just getting older?). I'm making a birthday mix and I'm
> stuck...
>
> Thanks,
> Mercy
> me...@ldeo.columbia.edu
>
>
>

Sing "Happy Birthday" to the tune of "The Volga Boatman."

--

Frank re...@indiana.edu

[Craig S. McIntosh]

So it is not folk, but how about the Beatles "When I'm Sixy
Four"? Also, David Wilcox has a song about turning 30 on his album Home
Again. It is called "Top of the Rollercoaster." I heard Tom Paxton sing
a song about how irritated he was to be receiving Prevention magazine at
65 just becuase the AARP was trying to solicit memberships. I don't know
however, if or where it is recorded.
Have fun

Craig McIntosh
cmci...@nmsu.edu

[Dave Troller]

ba...@news.infi.net (George D. Bame) writes:

>One of my favorites is "My Get Up and Go" (or some such title)
>accredited to Pete Seeger. It's in the "Rise Up Singing"
>collection if you can't find it anywhere else.

its also on the 1st pete & arlo live album, circa 1978.
how 'bout "a pirate looks at 40" by jimmy buffett? a personal fave
as the years between me & the big 4 - 0 dwindle to but a few...

[re...@usa1.com]

In article <1995Oct16.1...@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>, me...@ldgo.columbia.edu says...

>
>Anyone know any good songs about turning 40 (or maybe
>just getting older?). I'm making a birthday mix and I'm
>stuck...
>
>Thanks,
>Mercy
>me...@ldeo.columbia.edu
>

The WolfeTones perform a song:

"Oh Janey Mack I'm nearly forty,
I think my hair is turning grey.
I'll be on the pension very shortly
And how I long for yesterday."

I'm pretty sure they wrote it, too. What I typed out
for you is the chorus.

Patty
babyg...@aol.com

[PBB.RKB]

Getting older? "Top of the Rollercoaster" by David Wilcox on the "Home
Again"
CD. (A&M 5357)
PBB

[Abby Sale]

mercy garland (me...@ldgo.columbia.edu) wrote:
>: Anyone know any good songs about turning 40 (or maybe

>: just getting older?). I'm making a birthday mix and I'm
>: stuck...

Well, here's a favorite of mine. I believe it enters our ken from
Ewan MacColl's collecting it from Sam Larner. Tune's there in DigTrad
if you want it. I heard Ewan & Peggy sing this together. She really
belted out the chorus. One would almost have thought she meant it.

MAIDS WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG NEVER WED AN OLD MAN

An old man came courting me
Hey do a dority
An old man came courting me
Me being young
An old man came courting me
All for to marry me
Maids when you're young never wed an old man

For he's got no faloodorum, fadidledo doorum
For he's got no faloodoorum, fadidleday
He's got no faloorum, he's lost his ding doorum
So maids when you're young, never wed an old man

Now when we went to the church, hey do a dority
When we went to the church, me being young
When we went to the church, he left me in the lurch
Maids when you're young, never wed an old man
Now when we went to our bed, hey do a dority
Now when we went to our bed, me being young
When we went to our bed, he neither done nor said
Maids when you're young never wed an old man

Now when he went to sleep, hey do a dority
Now when we went to sleep, me being young
When we went to sleep, out of bed I did creep
Into the arms of a handsome young man

And I found his falodoorum, fa didle dodoorum
I found his faloodoorum, fa didle all day
I found his falodoorum and he got my dingdoorum
so maids when you're young never wed an old man

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recorded by Frankie Armstrong on Female Frolic
and Jeannie Robertson on Scottish folksongs
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[randi w cohen]

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>Getting older?
sally fingerett sings a song called "ladies' lunch" and another one called
"wildberries" on her ENCLOSED album.

randi

[Carl Newman]

Eliza Gilkyson has a wonderful song about turning 40 called "Odyssey".
Sorry, but I can't recall the CD name but it's one of her more recent
ones.

[Paul J. Stamler]

Louis Killen sings a song on "The Iron Muse" called "The Banks of the
Dee" about a miner who can't get work because he's fifty-six.

Peace.
Paul

[NANCY GREY]

MN>Anyone know any good songs about turning 40 (or maybe

>just getting older?). I'm making a birthday mix and I'm
>stuck...

The "40 Year Old Waltz" is perfect. :)

[Bev Herzog]

>>Anyone know any good songs about turning 40 (or maybe
>>just getting older?). I'm making a birthday mix and I'm
>>stuck...

The Limelighters: 39 and Holdin'
PP&M: Old Enough

[Jennifer M. Rafferty]

Ferron talks about turning 40 ("why me, why now?) on Not a
Still Life, singing "Shady Gate."