[ti:Life Begins At Forty]
[ar:Sophie Tucker]
[al:The Golden Age of Sophie Tucker]
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[00:00.00]Life Begins At Forty - Sophie Tucker
[00:03.90]I've often heard it said and sung
[00:06.39]That life is sweetest
[00:07.28]When you're young
[00:08.79]And kids
[00:09.58]Sixteen to twenty one
[00:11.12]Think they're having
[00:12.22]All the fun
[00:13.70]I disagree
[00:14.41]I say it isn't so
[00:16.05]And I'm one gal
[00:16.63]Who ought to know
[00:18.28]I started young
[00:18.90]And I'm still going strong
[00:20.63]But I've learned
[00:22.01]As I've gone along
[00:24.46]That life
[00:25.72]Begins at forty
[00:28.93]That's when love
[00:29.66]And living start to become
[00:31.71]A gentle art
[00:33.29]A woman who's been careful finds
[00:35.86]That's when she's
[00:36.59]In her prime
[00:38.03]And a good man
[00:38.60]When he's forty knows just
[00:40.54]How to take his time
[00:42.46]Conservative or sporty
[00:44.48]It's not until you're forty
[00:45.99]That you learn the how
[00:47.25]And why and the what and when
[00:49.85]In the twenties and the thirties
[00:51.62]You want your love
[00:52.26]In large amounts
[00:53.79]But after you reach forty
[00:55.91]It's the quality that counts
[00:58.43]Yes life begins at forty
[01:03.45]And I've just begun
[01:04.65]To live all over again
[01:07.19]You see the sweetest things
[01:10.27]In life grow sweeter
[01:12.43]As the years roll on
[01:14.97]Like the music from a violin
[01:18.10]That has been well played upon
[01:21.41]And the sweetest smoke
[01:22.87]Is from a mellow
[01:23.58]Broken and old pipe
[01:26.62]And the sweetest tasting peach
[01:28.73]Is one
[01:30.42]That's mature
[01:32.08]Round and ripe
[01:35.15]In the twenties and the thirties
[01:37.84]You're just an amateur
[01:40.23]But after you reach forty
[01:43.31]That's when you become a connoisseur
[01:46.56]Then it isn't grab and get it
[01:48.39]And a straight line for the door
[01:51.63]You're not hasty
[01:53.58]You're tasty
[01:55.70]You enjoy things so much more
[01:58.62]For instance
[02:00.23]A novice gulps his brandy down
[02:02.69]He doesn't understand
[02:04.91]Observe a connoisseur
[02:06.61]The way he holds it in his hand
[02:09.12]How he strokes the glass
[02:11.02]Fondles it warms it as he should
[02:14.29]Smacks his lips
[02:15.77]Aahhh slowly sips hah boy
[02:19.49]It tastes good
[02:21.99]Life begins at forty
[02:25.88]Then it isn't hit and run
[02:27.76]And you find much more fun
[02:29.98]You romance a girl of twenty
[02:32.19]And it costs you all your dough
[02:34.26]But when a forty thanks you
[02:36.23]She hates to see you go
[02:38.54]And girls of twenty
[02:40.17]All they want are big men
[02:41.92]Big men with strong physiques
[02:44.69]I don't say that it's bad
[02:46.97]But you do get tired
[02:48.63]Of those d**n Greeks
[02:50.98]Life begins at forty
[02:54.18]And I'm just living all over again