Songs About Growing Up or Growing Old

[LouLit01]

When I'm 64

DBEATLS

[DMAFl]

Wouldn't It Be Nice - Beach Boys

Those Were the Days My Friend - Mary Hopkins

Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen

[LouLit01]

The Boys of SUMMER

Don Henley 

I never will forget those nights
I wonder if it was a dream
Remember how you made me crazy
Remember how I made you scream
Now I don't understand
What happened to our love
But babe I'm gonna get you back
I'm gonna show you what I'm made of

I can see you
Your brown skin shining in the sun
I see you walking real slow
Smiling at everyone
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer, have gone

Out on the road today
I saw a Deadhead sticker on a cadillac
A little voice inside my head said:
"Don't look back, you can never look back"
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let them go but,

I can see you
Your brown skin shining in the sun
You got the top pulled down
Radio on baby
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone

[BeatleloverKT]

A pirate looks at forty by Jimmy Buffett

[MarybethG691589]

My Hometown The Boss 

[BeatleloverKT]

She misses him by Tim Rushlow. A women's perspective of caring for her husband with Altzheimers, who is gone, but still alive. Such a devastating disease.

[MaVolta]

The Green Leaves of Summer - The Brothers Four

A time to be reapin', a time to be sowin'.
The green leaves of Summer are callin' me home.
'Twas so good to be young then, in a season of plenty,
When the catfish were jumpin' as high as the sky.

A time just for plantin', a time just for ploughin'.
A time to be courtin' a girl of your own.
'Twas so good to be young then, to be close to the earth,
And to stand by your wife at the moment of birth.

A time to be reapin', a time to be sowin'.
The green leaves of Summer are callin' me home.
'Twas so good to be young then, with the sweet smell of apples,
And the owl in the pine tree a-winkin' his eye.

A time just for plantin', a time just for ploughin'.
A time just for livin', a place for to die.
'Twas so good to be young then, to be close to the earth,
Now the green leaves of Summer are callin' me home.

'Twas so good to be young then, to be close to the earth,
Now the green leaves of Summer are callin' me home.

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Dimitri Tiomkin / Paul Francis Webster

The Green Leaves of Summer lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Guy Webster/Webster Music

[1968Hoya46]

Watchin' Scotty Grow: Bobby Goldsboro (his usual "see that tree how big it's grown" type song).

[MarybethG691589]

"What Is Life" by George Harrison

[BeatleloverKT]

Whenever I call you friend by Kenny Loggins&Stevie Nicks. "Whenever I call you friend, I begin to think I understand, anything we are, you and I have always been ever and ever"......

[1968Hoya46]

We Got To Get Out Of This Place: Animals (see my daddy in bed he's dyin', see his hair's been turning grey).

[BeatleloverKT]

Candle of life by the Moody Blues

[1968Hoya46]

The Men In My Little Girl's Life: Mike Douglas (pure schmaltz)

[BeatleloverKT]

Forever Autumn by the Moody Blues. Intricate description of the passing of time interspersed with a love that is lost. Truly a hauntingly beautiful song 

[LouLit01]

I Hope You Dance

Leeann Womack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV-Z1YwaOiw

[BeatleloverKT]

Through the years by Kenny Rogers

[1968Hoya46]

Shapes Of Things: Yardbirds

[MaVolta]

Trip Around The Sun - Jimmy Buffett & Martina McBride

[1968Hoya46]

As Time Goes By: Dooley Wilson [Casablanca]; Sinatra; others.

[BeatleloverKT]

Where've you been? by Kathy Mattea. Follows the journey of man and woman meeting, marrying to ending in a Nursing Home on separate floors and the wife no longer remembers him. A true tearjerker 

[1968Hoya46]

A Hazy Shade Of Winter: S&G  (I apologize if it's a repeat).

[BeatleloverKT]

Everlasting love by Robert Knight  "Where life's river flows, no one really knows....."

[LouLit01]

Sweet Child of Mine

- Guns n Roses

[BeatleloverKT]

Fly like an Eagle by Steve Miller Band (Time keeps on slippin slippin slippin into the future........)

[cm9889168]

"Small Town"  by John (Cougar) Mellencamp

"Well I was born in a small town
And I live in a small town
Probably die in a small town
Oh, those small communities"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CVLVaBECuc&list=RD2BXnriNNb00&index=3

[MarybethG691589]

Come Dancing by: The Kinks

[LouLit01]

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@MarybethG691589 wrote:

Come Dancing by: The Kinks

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That one stopped me cold. What a great song. 

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band
And there's a car park where the pally used to stand
My sister's married and she lives on an estate
Her daughters go out, now it's her turn to wait
She knows they get away with things she never could
But if I asked her I wonder if she would
Come dancing

[BeatleloverKT]

Still the one by Orleans

[1968Hoya46]

Old Rivers: Walter Brennan (young boy on a farm looks up to Old Rivers. Boy grows up, leaves the family farm and has his own farm somewhere. His mom writes him and tells him that the crops are fine but that Old Rivers has died).

[BeatleloverKT]

This used to be my playground by Madonna

[LouLit01]

A Boy Named Sue

Johnny Cash