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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 'til quarter to three, would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?
You'll be
older too
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
Ah
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck, and Dave
Send 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 forever more
Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm sixty-four?
Songwriters
Paul Mc Cartney;John Lennon
Published by
SONY/ATV TUNES LLC
The song is sung by a young man
to his lover, and is about his plans of growing old together with her. Although
the theme is ageing, it was one of the first songs McCartney wrote, when he was
only 16. It was on the Beatles playlist in their
early days as a song to perform when the amplifiers broke down or the
electricity went off. Both George Martin and Mark Lewisohn speculated that McCartney may have
thought of the song when recording began for Sgt.
Pepper in December 1966
because his father turned 64 earlier that year.
Lennon
said of the song, "Paul wrote it in the Cavern days. We just stuck a few more words
on it like 'grandchildren on your knee' and 'Vera, Chuck and Dave' ... this was
just one that was quite a hit with us." In his 1980 interview for Playboy he said, "I would never even
dream of writing a song like that."
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