In honor of my birthday yesterday, here’s Paul McCartney’s “When I’m 64.” Which I am.
When I get older losing my hair,
Many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine?If I’d been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me,
Will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?oo oo oo oo oo oo oo
oooo
You’ll be older too, (ah ah ah ah ah)
And if you say the word,
I could stay with you.I could be handy mending a fuse
When your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride.Doing the garden, digging the weeds,
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?Every summer we can rent a cottage
In the Isle of Wight,
If it’s not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck, and DaveSend me a postcard, drop me a line,
Stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, Wasting Away.Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?Whoo!
What charming, hilarious photos! Happy birthday!
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Thank you! The one at the bottom of the post is an artist trading card I made a couple of years ago. The quote gets more trenchant with every passing year, unfortunately. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by, whatsnormality! Y’all come back.
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I turned 64 in May. Counting the days until I am 65 and I can pay less than $735 a month for health insurance.
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Ain’t that the truth? Every year Blue Cross/Blue Shield sends me a birthday card and then a week later I get a notice of an increase in my health insurance premium “because you had a birthday.”
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I’ve always loved the song. I am not quite there yet, but I know the feeling. Happy Birthday!
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Thank you, chlost! Paul McCartney, a fellow Gemini, turns 69 on June 18. He seems to be doing pretty well, huh? I don’t think scrimping and saving is on the agenda for him!
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Happy Birthday! For crying out loud, though, WHO is that limber old lady who keeps turning up on the internet? And what is her secret? Michele
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Thanks, Michele! I have no idea who she is, but she’s my new role model.
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Happy belated birthday — and I see you ares still a punk kid!
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Thanks, Jerry! It’s all relative, isn’t it? I will never be this young again. ha!
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Happy, happy, happy, and many, many, more!
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Thanks, Mrs. Chili! I will do my best!
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Happy belated birthday! Here’s to many more years and many more birthday celebrations! (Not to mention blog posts!) ~ Lenore
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I must say I have more time to do things like blogging than I did when I was younger, so at least I got that goin’ for me!
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Enjoy it Texas – this is a GOOD time in life. Happy Birthday.
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You betcha! (Sorry, must have been listening too much to Sarah Palin’s version of “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere: You Know, the Guy Who Warned the British by Ringing Bells So They Wouldn’t Take Away Our Guns.”)
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Or trample on our second amendment rights – 13 years before we had a constitution. there’s no end to the stupid with her.
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Happy Birthday and many more! Great picture of the lady warming up!
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I want to be just like her when I grow up.
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Great attitude!
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Happy (slightly belated) birthday!
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Thanks! My ex-husband manages to stretch his birthday out for a month. 🙂
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Happy Birthday! May there be cake and festivities!
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Well, I had a chocolate dipped cone at Dairy Queen last night, so I’m livin’ large!
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Hey, belated happy birthday! Hope it was wonderful.
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Thank you! By the way, I’ve been enjoying your Chicken Haiku contest enormously. 🙂
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You’ve made some EXCELLENT submissions!
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Hi,
Happy Birthday (Sorry I’m a bit late) I hope you had a fantastic day.
love the song you decided on, and the picture, that is great, to be that flexible, if only. 🙂
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I don’t think I’ve ever been anywhere near that flexible, so at her age? I say, “You go, girl!”
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Happy belated birthday! I’m still older than you. Speed it up a little, will ya?
The things that crack me up most about that picture are the earrings and dark pantyhose. She was obviously going somewhere. I guess the bus was late.
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I’m aging as fast as I can!
Maybe this gal was limbering up so she could sprint to a good seat…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY a few days late! I’m always late with birthday greetings anyway. I love the card and it’s so true. Also love the McCartney song. I remembered Rod McKuen on my birthday blog this year. “People on their birthdays, are fond of looking back, to half-remembered yesterdays…
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Thanks! I just finished reading “Moonwalking with Einstein” by Joshua Foer and he has some really interesting thoughts on memory, especially how time seems to speed up as we age. I’d always heard that, but now that I’m older I can attest to it first hand!
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I’m late to the party! Wishing you the best year ever. Come east to visit merrilymarylee and me and we’ll fete you properly.
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Hey, Nance! There’s still plenty of chocolate left to go around. I would go east just to see what raindrops look like. We are “drah, drah, drah…”
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Great photo of my new hero.
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Thanks! I could have used some of her flexibility at my yoga class today. Arrgh…
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just passing… happy birthday!
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Thanks so much! Y’all come back!
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Oh my, that photo is WRONG on so many levels! LOL
I’ll be 64 next month, so I know what you’re going through. (“Golden years,” my butt!)
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Happy belated Birthday!
As you can tell I am a sporadic follower!…(Damn work!!!) But I love every one of your blogs. You always seems to make me guffaw…and think!
Great combo in life, don’t you think?
Live it up!
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Thanks so much, bubbles! Thinking and guffawing—what’s not to like?
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