G
He's out there somewhere every night 
C                         G
Where the music's playing loud 
 
He's doing all those fifty's steps 
A7             D7
He's in a 1980 crowd 
 
G
Dim lights hide the mileage line
    C                 G
The Clairol hides the gray 
    C                G
And he won't mention anything 
   D7               G
To give his old age away 
 
        C               G
Oh he's thirty-nine and holding
D7                    G
Holding everything he can 
     C            G
From seventeen to twenty-five 
   A7                 D7
To prove he's still a man 
 
G
He's holding to a candle 
    C                      G
And it's a-burning at both ends 
     C               G
He's thirty-nine and holding 
D7                    G
Holding everything he can 
 
         
You can bet he'll never see 
C            G
Thirty-nine again
 
He should have turned loose long ago 
A7                        D7
But still he a hanging it in 
 
G
He still thinks that he's the man 
     C               G
That he once used to be 
     C               G
He's thirty-nine and holding 
    D7            G
And acting twenty-three