It's the Age That Makes the Difference-Ernest Tubb

[ti:It's the Age That Makes the Difference] [ar:Ernest Tubb] [al:The Importance of Being Ernest] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]It's the Age That Makes the Difference - Ernest Tubb [00:07.39]When I was just a little boy [00:09.47] [00:10.09]And life was bright and new [00:11.88] [00:12.42]Asking foolish questions was all I could find to do [00:16.31] [00:18.35]One day I asked my grandpa [00:19.84] [00:20.56]Why he moved around so slow [00:22.35] [00:23.06]He said listen son I'll tell you [00:25.19]If you really wanna know [00:26.97] [00:28.97]It's the age that makes the difference [00:31.52]And the difference you can see [00:34.22]I'm running out of what the doctors call vitality [00:37.59] [00:40.14]I'm just like a dried up apple [00:42.17]That keeps hanging through a tree [00:44.52] [00:45.17]It's the age that makes the difference [00:46.93] [00:47.64]And the difference tells on me [00:49.33] [00:57.86]So when I started courting [00:59.80]I was bashful and shy [01:01.86] [01:02.68]It tore me all to pieces [01:04.88]When a girl winked her eye [01:06.79] [01:08.87]But when I started catching on [01:11.00]I didn't learn to slow [01:12.85] [01:14.13]Pretty soon they said I was a reckled Romeo [01:17.48] [01:19.33]It was the age that makes the difference [01:22.23]And the difference put me wise [01:23.93] [01:24.55]That the time was right for loving [01:26.27] [01:27.06]And the limit was the skies [01:28.78] [01:31.45]Pretty soon I found out [01:32.81]What it took to not come cold [01:35.16] [01:35.72]It was the age that made the difference [01:38.13]And the difference made me bold [01:40.17] [01:48.51]Not long ago I was a man [01:50.78]That really got around [01:52.13] [01:53.15]But here I've laid [01:54.42]I've noticed that I started slowing down [01:57.14] [01:59.09]I find that ain't no trouble now [02:01.89]To stay at home at night [02:03.44] [02:04.26]I'm mild and mellowed now [02:06.15]But I will soon be over right [02:08.14] [02:10.18]It's the age that makes the difference [02:12.58]And the difference makes me know [02:14.49] [02:15.15]That my high speed days are over [02:17.54]And I'll have to take it slow [02:19.44] [02:21.37]I ain't really feeling older [02:23.66]But I just don't feel the same [02:26.07]It's the age that makes the difference [02:28.55]Father time can make a change