Old Enough (Ode To An Aging Rock-Peter, Paul & Mary

[ti:Old Enough (Ode To An Aging Ro] [ar:Peter，Paul & Mary] [al:Lifelines Live] [by:] [offset:0] [00:22.75]Excerpt from "Talking Union" [00:24.19]Words by Lee Hayes, [00:26.37]Millard Lampell and Pete [00:27.62]Seeger - inspired by [00:28.81]Woody Guthrie's "Talking Dustbowl". [00:30.06]"Talking Union" ©1958 Stormking Music, [00:31.68]Inc., BMI Lately [00:32.55]I've been picking up strange vibrations [00:34.49]I hear my music now on oldies stations [00:36.61]"Put out a CD called "the best of what I was" [00:39.67]My picture's on the cover and no one knows [00:42.29]Just when you think you've got the wisdom of the ages [00:45.41]Nobody seems to want to turn your pages [00:47.65]I used to think I was the cat's pajamas [00:50.21]Now I'm about as hip as [00:51.84]Fernando Lamas (cause I'm) [00:52.96]Old enough Old enough to be your father [00:55.39]Old enough Old enough (and then some) [00:57.39]And now my kids are taking me to the shows [01:00.13]There's hip-hop, rap, grunge music [01:01.57]I don't know I like to think I'm still part of the crowd [01:05.50]But, how can they hear the lyrics [01:07.56]When the music is so loud?! [01:09.24]I dig rock and roll music (I been saying that for a while) [01:13.05]But I wonder if you knew [01:14.73]That rhythm & blues begat the rock and roll style? [01:17.61]And just like that, way before rap, [01:19.66]Woody Guthrie spread the news [01:21.16]He told it straight, let us relate [01:23.35]This Talking Union Blues: [01:24.53]Well if you want higher wages, let me tell you what to do [01:28.28]You've got to talk to the workers in the shop with you [01:31.83]You got to build you a union, got to make it strong [01:35.26]But if you all stick together, boys, it won't be long [01:38.51]You get shorter hours, better working conditions [01:40.51]Vacations with pay, take the kids to the seashore [01:43.13]Well I remember I was seventeen [01:44.81]I was a Birmingham High School rock and roll king [01:48.37]The paper talked about how [01:49.74]I'd strut my stuff I'd like to read it, [01:52.24]But my arms aren't long enough [01:54.11]I kinda like my new senior status [01:56.23]I don't even care what the latest fad is [01:59.04]My g-generation's rediscovered me [02:00.16]And now I'm on the cover of modern maturity