Young Man

A truck older than me pulled up

A guy older than it climbed out

And walked into the bar I's in

Ordered one and he sat down

Next to me and next thing I know

We were shootin' more than Jack

I said, "Buddy, you don't act your age"

And he leaned back and laughed

And said, "Young man

Don't nobody gotta grow up, man

Don't be afraid to look dumb, man

It's worth it

'Cause only one man's been perfect"

He said, "Young man, take it from an old man

If it ain't good for your soul, tell it where to go, man

Make crazy friends, fall in crazy love

'Cause that's the stuff that keeps you young, man, young, man

If it gets you drunk, man, drunk, man

Soak it in like the sun, man, sun, man

Watch it keep you young, man, young, man"

About five before midnight

The woman he called "baby" showed up

The forty years he talked about

Looked like a brand-new love

As he held her tight, she kissed him like

It was only them in the room

And they danced along to Top 40 songs

Like they were still twenty-two

And said, "Young man

Don't nobody gotta grow up, man

Don't be afraid to look dumb, man

It's worth it

Hell, only one man's been perfect"

He said, "Young man, take it from an old man

If it ain't good for your soul, tell it where to go, man

Make crazy friends, fall in crazy love

'Cause that's the stuff that keeps you young, man, young, man

If it gets you drunk, man, drunk, man

Soak it in like the sun, man, sun, man

Watch it keep you young, man, young, man"

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh woah, oh

I've got good advice from preachers, teachers

And a bunch from my old coach

But the best I ever got was from a seventy-three-year-old

Young man

He said, "Young man

Don't nobody gotta grow up, man

Don't you be afraid to look dumb, man

It's worth it

Hell, only one man's been perfect"

He said, "Young man, take it from an old man

If it ain't good for your soul, tell it where to go, man

Make crazy friends, fall in crazy love

'Cause that's the stuff that keeps you young, man, young, man

If it gets you drunk, man, drunk, man

Soak it in like the sun, man, sun, man

Watch it keep you young, man, young, man"

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