sophie tucker《Life Begins At Forty》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:04.27]I've often heard it said and sung [00:06.81]That life is sweetest when you're young [00:09.16]And kids sixteen to twenty one [00:11.39]Think they're having all the fun [00:13.78]I disagree I say it isn't so [00:16.18]And I'm one gal who ought to know [00:18.13]I started young and I'm still going strong [00:20.83]But I've learned as I've gone along [00:24.61]That life begins at forty [00:29.10]That's when love and living start [00:30.80]To become a gentle art [00:33.38]A woman who's been careful finds [00:35.95]That's when she's in her prime [00:37.95]And a good man when he's forty [00:39.85]Knows just how to take his time [00:42.61]Conservative or sporty [00:44.30]It's not until you're forty [00:46.14]That you learn the how and why [00:47.86]And the what and when [00:49.70]In the twenties and the thirties [00:51.52]You want your love [00:52.21]In large amounts [00:53.70]But after you reach forty [00:55.66]It's the quality that counts [00:57.96]Yes life begins at forty [01:03.13]And I've just begun [01:04.71]To live all over again [01:07.47]You see [01:08.35]The sweetest things in life [01:10.97]Grow sweeter [01:12.00]As the years roll on [01:15.00]Like the music [01:16.26]From a violin [01:18.08]That has been well played upon [01:20.72]And the sweetest smoke [01:22.51]Is from a mellow broken and old pipe [01:25.96]And the sweetest tasting peach [01:28.77]Is one [01:30.13]That's justice round and ripe [01:35.10]In the twenties and the thirties [01:37.41]You're just an amateur [01:40.13]But after you reach forty [01:43.24]That's when you become a connoisseur [01:45.99]Then it isn't grab and get it and a straight [01:48.49]Line for the door [01:50.71]You're not hasty [01:53.25]You're tasty [01:54.92]You enjoy things so much more [01:58.19]For instance a novice gulps his brandy down [02:02.15]He doesn't understand [02:04.28]Observe a connoisseur [02:05.90]The way he holds it in his hand [02:08.67]How he strokes the glass fondles it [02:11.59]Warms it as he should [02:13.58]Smaks his lips aahhh slowly sips [02:18.02]Hah boy it tastes good [02:21.18]Life begins at forty [02:25.34]Then it isn't hit and run [02:26.96]And you find and much more fun [02:29.62]You romance a girl of twenty [02:31.46]And it costs you [02:32.35]All your dough [02:33.87]But when a forty [02:34.78]Thanks you she hates to see [02:36.62]You go [02:38.02]And girls of twenty all they want are big men [02:41.64]Big men with strong physiques [02:44.21]I don't say that it's bad [02:46.15]But you do get tired [02:48.00]Of those d**n greeks [02:50.39]Life begins at forty [02:53.52]And I'm just living [02:56.20]All over again