Songwriter: Sonny Throckmorton
Producer: Jerry Kennedy
Today he traded his big 98 Oldsmobile
He got a heck of a deal
On a new Porsche car
He ain't wearing his usual grey business suit
He's got jeans and high boots
With an embroidered star
An' today he's forty years old going on twenty
Don't look for the grey in his hair
'Cause he ain't got any
He's got a young thing beside him
That just melts in his hand
He's middle aged crazy
Trying to prove he still can
He's gotta a woman he's loved for a long long time at home
Ah but the thrill is all gone
When they cut down the lights
They've got a business that they spent a while coming by
Been a long uphill climb
But now the profits are high
But today he's forty years old going on twenty
And he hears of sordid affairs and he ain't had any
And the young thing beside him
You know she understands
That he's middle aged crazy
Trying to prove he still can
He got a heck of a deal
On a new Porsche car
He ain't wearing his usual grey business suit
He's got jeans and high boots
With an embroidered star
An' today he's forty years old going on twenty
Don't look for the grey in his hair
'Cause he ain't got any
He's got a young thing beside him
That just melts in his hand
He's middle aged crazy
Trying to prove he still can
He's gotta a woman he's loved for a long long time at home
Ah but the thrill is all gone
When they cut down the lights
They've got a business that they spent a while coming by
Been a long uphill climb
But now the profits are high
But today he's forty years old going on twenty
And he hears of sordid affairs and he ain't had any
And the young thing beside him
You know she understands
That he's middle aged crazy
Trying to prove he still can
more tracks from the album
The Jerry Lee Lewis Anthology: All Killer No Filler!
- Don’t Let Me Cross Over
- Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
- Let’s Put It Back Together Again
- Money (That’s What I Want)
- I’ll Find It Where I Can
- She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye
- Rockin’ My Life Away
- Thirty-Nine and Holding
- Chantilly Lace
- It’ll Be Me
- She Still Comes Around (To Love What’s Left of Me)
- To Make Love Sweeter for You
- In the Mood
- Sometimes a Memory Ain’t Enough
- Meat Man
- High School Confidential
- What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)
- There Must Be More to Love Than This
- I Can’t Seem to Say Goodbye
- Breathless
- Touching Home
- Would You Take Another Chance on Me
- Down the Line
- One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)
- No Headstone on My Grave
- End of the Road
- One Minute Past Eternity
- Crazy Arms
- Once More with Feeling
- Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On
- Middle Age Crazy
- Break-Up
- All Night Long
- I’m on Fire
- Invitation to Your Party
- Come On In
- You Win Again
- He Can’t Fill My Shoes
- Another Place, Another Time
- Over the Rainbow
- Drinking Wine Spo-Dee O’Dee
- Great Balls of Fire
From the albums
Jerry Lee Lewis popular songs
- Great Balls of Fire
- Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On
- Frankie and Johnny
- You Helped Me Up (When the World Let Me Down)
- I’ll Keep on Loving You
- Let The Good Times Roll
- Come What May
- Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
- Sick and Tired
- Johnny B. Goode
- Hound Dog
- Let’s Talk About Us
- I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Baby
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- Money (That’s What I Want)
- Dungaree Doll
- One More Time
- Poison Love
- It Hurt Me So
- Miss the Mississippi and You
- I Ain’t Loved You
- High Heel Sneakers
- I’m a Lonesome Fugitive
- I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive