Songwriter: Bill Rice Jerry Foster
Producer: Eddie Kilroy
He's out there somewhere every night
The music's playin' loud
He's doing all-a those fifty's steps
He's in a 1980 crowd
Dim lights hide the milage line
Clairol hides the gray
And he won't mention anything
To give his old age away
Oh Lord, he's thirty-nine and he's holdin'
He's holdin' everything that he can
From seventeen to twenty-five
He'll prove he's still a man
Hey boy, you're holding to a candle
And it's a-burning at both ends
Thirty-nine and holding
A-holdin' everything that he can
Well, now you can bet he'll never see
Thirty-nine, again
Son, you oughta given up a long time ago
But you just keep on hangin' in
He still thinks that he's the man
That he used to be
Boy, you're just thirty-nine
And you're dreamin'
Acting twenty-three
Oh-oh, he's thirty-nine, he's holdin'
Holdin' everything that he can
From seventeen to twenty-five
He'll prove he's still a man
He's a-holding to a candle
My God, it's burning at both ends!
He's thirty-nine and he's holdin'
Holdin' everything he can
The music's playin' loud
He's doing all-a those fifty's steps
He's in a 1980 crowd
Dim lights hide the milage line
Clairol hides the gray
And he won't mention anything
To give his old age away
Oh Lord, he's thirty-nine and he's holdin'
He's holdin' everything that he can
From seventeen to twenty-five
He'll prove he's still a man
Hey boy, you're holding to a candle
And it's a-burning at both ends
Thirty-nine and holding
A-holdin' everything that he can
Well, now you can bet he'll never see
Thirty-nine, again
Son, you oughta given up a long time ago
But you just keep on hangin' in
He still thinks that he's the man
That he used to be
Boy, you're just thirty-nine
And you're dreamin'
Acting twenty-three
Oh-oh, he's thirty-nine, he's holdin'
Holdin' everything that he can
From seventeen to twenty-five
He'll prove he's still a man
He's a-holding to a candle
My God, it's burning at both ends!
He's thirty-nine and he's holdin'
Holdin' everything he 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
- Killer Country (1980)
- Country Sundance (1981)
- The Jerry Lee Lewis Anthology: All Killer No Filler! (1993)
Jerry Lee Lewis popular songs
- Great Balls of Fire
- Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On
- All Night Long
- All the Good Is Gone
- You Don’t Miss Your Water
- It Won’t Happen with Me
- Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
- Drinking Wine Spo-Dee O’Dee
- I Could Never Be Ashamed of You
- What’d I Say
- Over the Rainbow
- I’m Feeling Sorry
- Time Changes Everything
- Another Place, Another Time
- Memphis
- Mean Woman Blues
- My Lovely Fraulein
- He Can’t Fill My Shoes
- Folsom Prison Blues
- You Win Again
- Bottom Dollar
- Skid Row
- I Love You Because
- Mom and Dad’s Waltz