When you are old and gray
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- D7 G E Am
1. Since I still
appreciate you, let's find love while we may,
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G
because
I know I'll hate you when you are old and gray.
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E Am
So say you love me here and
now, I'll make the most of that,
C G E
say
you love and trust me, for I know you'll disgust me,
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when
you're old and getting fat.
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An awful debility, a lessened
utility,
D G D
a
loss of mobility is a strong possibility.
G D
In all probability I'll lose
my virility
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and
you your fertility and desirability.
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And this liability of total
sterility,
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will
lead to hostility and a sense of futility.
G D
So let's act with agility
while we still have facility,
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for
we'll soon reach senility and lose the ability.
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E Am
2. Your teeth will start to go, dear, your
waist will start to spread,
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in twenty
years or so, dear, I'll wish that you were dead.
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E Am
I'll never love you then at
all the way I do today,
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so,
please, remember, when I leave in December,
A D G
I told you so in May.
(midi
= capo 1) (Tom Lehrer)