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Happy birthday to me, I'm 70 years old today.
And in the last five years, I couldn't say my life has changed.
My teeth are all gone, and so is my woman.
And I could not tell you which one left me first.
Well I've been retired for a couple years
And I've learned that life is more that sluggin' beers
While sitting on the front porch and watching all the cars go by.
Something just tells me there's more to this living than just life.

My grandaddy says that the afterlife
Is not when you're dead but when you're sixty-five.
And if you're not working than you might as well die.
You're only really living till the day you retire.

So I got me some cows and a field of hay,
And I started working that old school way.
Working the land with my hands. Whats a man without his land?.
I don't have to hurry, I just take my time.
And I'm richer than a king though I don't make a dime.
Cause living on the farm is the only good life for me.
The harder you sweat the better of a man you'll be.

My grandaddy says that the afterlife
Is not when you're dead but when you're sixty-five.
And if you're not working than you might as well die.
You're only really living till the day you retire.

You can sit there on the sofa in your air-conditioned office
With a dozen secretaries and a hundred cups of coffee.
But I'm telling you, you'll never have a life like me.
It's not really working when it comes so naturally.

My grandaddy says that the afterlife
Is not when you're dead but when you're sixty-five.
And if you're not working than you might as well die.
You're only really living till the day you retire.

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from From the Mountains to the Sea, released December 23, 2006

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