[00:10.93]I've Lately been picking up strange vibrations
[00:15.44]I hear my music now on oldies stations
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[00:20.15]"Put out a CD called "the best of what I was"
[00:24.16]My picture's on the cover and no one knows
[00:28.42]
[00:38.75]Just when you think you've got the wisdom of the ages
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[00:43.41]Nobody seems want to to turn your pages
[00:47.21]
[00:48.09]I used to think I was the cat's pajamas
[00:51.93]
[00:52.68]Now I'm about as hip as Fernando Lamas
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[00:57.17]Old enough
[00:57.73]
[00:59.49]Old enough to be your father
[01:02.25]
[01:02.88]Old enough
[01:03.95]
[01:05.34]Old enough then
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[01:07.98]And now my kids are taking me to the shows
[01:11.12]
[01:12.19]There's hip-hop, rap, grunge music I don't know
[01:15.92]
[01:17.24]I like to think I'm still part of the crowd
[01:20.69]But, how can they hear the lyrics
[01:23.06]When the music is so loud?!
[01:25.75]
[01:30.85]I dig rock and roll music
[01:33.24]been saying that for a
[01:35.44]But I wonder if you knew
[01:36.57]That rhythm & blues begat the rock and roll style?
[01:39.93]And just like that, way before rap,
[01:42.39]Woody Guthrie spread the news
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[01:44.70]He told it straight, let us relate
[01:46.59]
[01:47.09]This Talking Union Blues:
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[01:49.23]Well if you want higher wages, let me tell you what to do
[01:51.43]You've got to talk to the workers in the shop with you
[01:53.95]You got to build you a union, got to make it strong
[01:56.27]But if you all stick together, boys, it won't be long
[01:58.60]You get shorter hours, better working conditions
[02:02.52]
[02:03.34]Vacations with pay, take the kids seashoreto the
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[02:08.64]Well I remember I was seventeen
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[02:12.12]I was a Birmingham High School rock and roll king
[02:16.84]
[02:18.16]The paper talked about how I'd strut my stuff
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[02:22.57]I'd like to read it, but my arms aren't long enough
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[02:55.34]I kinda like my new senior status
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[03:00.16]I don't even care what the latest fad is
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[03:04.68]My g-generation's rediscovered me
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[03:08.83]And now I'm on cover the of modern maturity