We'd like to welcome you here to the dakota country and western club And in return for miss yoko ono's wonderful gift of a very strange I'd like, this morning, to sing you a little ditty that occured to me in the throes Of my sleep It's called life begins at 40 They say life begins at forty Age is just a state of mind If all that's true You know, that I've been dead for thirty-nine And if life begins at forty Well, I hope it ain't the same It's been tough enough without that stuff I don't wanna to be born again Well, I tried to sweep the slate clean With a new broom ev'ry day If that don't work I'll jerk around until my next birtday Yeah, life begins at forty Age is just a state of mind Well, if all that's true You know that I've been dead for thirty-nine