The 200 Year Old Alcoholic - HIVE Open Mic 127

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    celticheartbeat

    Published on Sep 12, 2022
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    Hi Everyone

    I learned this fun little song this week which I thought might suit this weeks open mic theme.

    I heard Liam Clancy sing this song in a concert from 1977 called "Makem and Clancy at Home" which you can find on Youtube.

    I actually found alot of inspiration for new songs from that old concert.I find any time I listen to Liam Clancy or Tommy Makem I get a new song out of it.

    I hope guys enjoy this one.

    Oh, it's never too late to start living
    So get out and have some fun
    The sun will be just as shiny in the morning
    As the first day the world begun

    When I was eighty I started smoking
    Took to drinking at eighty-five
    At ninety I started courting
    Thank God that I was alive
    Ninety-five saw me in business
    Determined to rake in a pile
    At a hundred I made my first million
    And I started living in style

    Oh, it's never too late to start living
    So get out and have some fun
    The sun will be just as shiny in the morning
    As the first day the world begun

    Well I moved to an uptown penthouse
    Used fifties to light my cigars
    Developed a taste for fine champagne
    Drove fast I-talian cars
    But the doctor he give me a warning
    And a lecture on right and wrong
    If I didn't quit my sinful ways
    I couldn't live very long

    Oh, it's never too late to start living
    So get out and have some fun
    The sun will be just as shiny in the morning
    As the first day the world begun

    When I was eighty I started smoking
    Took to drinking at eighty-five
    At ninety I started courting
    Thank God that I was alive
    Ninety-five saw me in business
    Determined to rake in a pile
    At a hundred I made my first million
    And I started living in style

    Oh, it's never too late to start living
    To get out and have some fun
    The sun will be just as shiny in the morning
    As the first day the world begun

    Well I moved to an uptown penthouse
    Used fifties to light my cigars
    Developed a taste for fine champagne
    Drove fast I-talian cars
    But the doctor he give me a warning
    And a lecture on right and wrong
    If I didn't give up my sinful ways
    I couldn't live very long

    Oh, it's never too late to start living
    To get out and have some fun
    The sun will be just as shiny in the morning
    As the first day the world begun

    Now I'm a two-hundred year old alcoholic
    And the nicotine's caught up on me
    But worst of all in the mail this morning
    Got a suit for paternity
    But I'm not really unhappy
    'Cause maybe I'll have me a son
    And his morning's will be just as shiny
    As the first day the world begun

    Oh, it's never too late to start living
    To get out and have some fun
    The sun will be just as shiny in the morning
    As the first day the world begun

    Oh, it's never too late to start living
    To get out and have some fun
    The sun will be just as shiny in the morning
    As the first day the world begun

    This is the version I took my inspiration from
    https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/tommy-makem/200-year-old-alcoholic-chords-4159741

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    openmic music folksong

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