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I’d Rather Be An Old Man’s Sweetheart (Than A Young Man’s Fool) Lyrics By Candi Staton

    you may think i’m silly to love a man twice my age
    but i know from experience girls sometime with pain
    the man i’ve got the fire is almost gone
    he can’t heat up nobody’s eyes
    he got just enough to keep me warm
    i’d rather be an old man’s sweetheart
    than to be a young man’s fool oh yeah

    to love you once a month is all an old man desires
    you can love a young man 7 days a week
    and still he’s not satisfied
    and old man would be so grateful
    you could just sit and talk
    but a young man is somewhere doing the camel walk
    i’d rather be an old man’s sweetheart
    than to be a young man’s fool yeah yeah yeah

    most girls prefer a young man
    ’cause a young man is strong tell him let me be
    but i’d rather put up with this old man
    than have a young man doing me wrong
    and old man would be so grateful tell him
    you could just let him sit and talk tell him let me be
    but a young man is somewhere busy doing the camel walk
    i’d rather be an old man’s sweetheart
    than to be a young man’s fool

    don’t wanna be your fool no
    don’t wanna be your fool
    ain’t gonna be your fool
    don’t wanna be no fool
    young man just ain’t gonna do that
    no no don’t wanna be no fool
    ain’t gonna be no fool

    Artist: Candi Staton

    Year: 1969

    Decade: 60s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 135