On That Note: Age of Aquarius

[cyclones500]

“I’m 61 years old now / Lord, I never thought I’d see 30.”

 

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SIAP — In sporadically the past couple of days so I might have missed it during thread-scan.

“When I was younger, so much younger than today.”

 

[BoxsterCy]

A response to Neil Young and his "You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain" was what inspired Joni Mitchell's Circle Game.

Uses seasons at first to note the boys age. Every decade I age makes me love this song just that much more.

Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams ...........

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels thru the town ...........

So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true

 

[IsUaClone2]

"...then you distracted by her older sister..."



This is the version of "Younger Girl" that I knew:



"...the morning sun, when it's in your face, really shows your age..."

 

[CYdTracked]

"Johnny's daddy, was takin' him fishing When he was eight years old"

 

[cyclones500]

“He was only 10 years old when his daddy died in prison.”

 

[cyclones500]

A “general” age reference plus old/older category

“You’re the sizzleteen, and you’re older than me”

 

[Cydar]

I've been caught stealing
Once when I was 5

 

[cyclones500]

Buzzcocks 2-fer

 

[cyclones500]

“I was 21 years when I wrote this song / I’m 22 now, but I won’t be for long”

 

[cyclones500]

Another from Bragg.

“You're twenty-and-a-half and you're not yet engaged.”

 

[cyclones500]

"The old get old and the young get stronger."