Thirty Again - Merle Haggard

Youth should be saved for the last

But it’s wasted on the young and the fast

But I wish I could go back in time to a faster time back then

And I wish I could just be thirty a-gain

I know thirty seems old to a child

But to me it seems crazy and wild

There’s so many places that a young man ain’t been

And I wish I could just be thirty a-gain

Wish I could be thirty a-gain

Wish time didn’t wrinkle my skin

They say life starts at fifty, we’ve been lied to, my friend

And I wish I could just be thirty a-gain

Wish I could be thirty a-gain

Wish time couldn’t wrinkle my skin

There’s so many places that a young man ain’t been

And I wish I could just be thirty a-gain