Backside of thirty (1979)    (video)

 

    C - G - D - G

 

                    G                           C               D

1. Making money at 30 with a wife and a son,

                   G                              A7                  D

    then a short five years later it all comes undone.

                G                                           C               D

    She's gone back to mama with the boy by her side,

                   G                                             D                G

    now I'm wine drunk and running with them on my mind.

 

                  C                               G

I'm on the back side of 30 and back on my own,

      B7                                 C               D

an empty apartment don't feel like a home.

              C                               G

On the back side of 30, the short side of time,

  G                                   D              G

back on the bottom with no will to climb.          +  C - G - D - G

 

            G                                          C                   D

2. It’s dawn Monday morning and I just called in sick,

         G                                         A                         D

    I skipped work last Friday to drink this month’s rent.

                G                                     C               D

    And when my friends ask me, I tell ’em I'm fine,

                 G                              D                  G

    but my eyes tell a story that my lies can't hide.

 

                  C                               G

I'm on the back side of 30 and back on my own,

      B7                                 C               D

an empty apartment don't feel like a home.

              C                              G

On the back side of 30 the short side of time,

  G                                   D              C - G

back on the bottom with no will to cli....mb.

 

    (John Conlee)