The Beatles
When I’m Sixty‐Four lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1967
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 2:38
When I get older losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a Valentine
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out 'til quarter to three
Would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?
You'll be older too
And if you say the word
I could stay with you
I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride
Doing the garden, digging the weeds
Who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?
Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear
We shall scrimp and save (shall scrimp and save)
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck and Dave
Send me a postcard, drop me a line
Stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four?
Whoo!
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Key vocabulary
- losing
- not winning; going downA1
- cottage
- small cozy houseB1
- wasting
- using up; becoming lessB1
- rent
- money to live in a placeB1
- who
- person thatB1
- lock
- device to stop openingA2
- save
- keep from being lostA2
- door
- entrance in a wallA1
- drop
- fall downA2
- every
- each oneA1
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About this song
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, mixing early rock and R&B with original songwriting and stylistic experimentation. Known for their influential catalog and studio innovations under producer George Martin, they helped redefine pop music’s artistic scope through releases from Please Please Me to Strawberry Fields Forever and Revolver.