From the recording Let's Swing
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><strong><img src="http://theprimecutts.com/img/Going_Down_Down_The_Road_Feeling_Glad.jpg" alt="" width="191" height="131" /></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Are we ever too old? Well, maybe yes. I’m stunned that I wrote this almost twenty years ago; the song feels all the more relevant two decades later. Rock on!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><strong>© 2001 Steven E. Cutts </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"><strong>recorded and mixed in the fall of 2019 </strong>by Jim Robeson</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Steve, <em>vocal</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Jason Byrd, <em>guitar </em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Jim Robeson, <em>bass</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Eric Selby, <em>drums</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Bill Starks<em>, piano</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Bruce Swaim<em>, saxophone</em></span></p>
Lyrics
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I pointed out to my wife that every single night </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We just fight for the remote control.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">And our sofa’s got impressions -- really rather deep depressions --</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">From us sitting there while we grow old.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We’ve got a running head start on becoming old farts;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Every evening is <em>déjà vu.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I said, “We’d better shake these habits before they can grab us;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Let’s do what we used to do.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">“Let’s swing; let’s twist; let’s jump and jive the night away.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Let’s have a fling, kick up our heels like when we jitterbugged in younger days.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I want to move to a saxophone low-down and dirty;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">It’ll help me forget about ever turning thirty.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Let’s swing; let’s twist; let’s jump and jive the night away.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Now, there used to be a time when we thought it was a crime</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">To get caught hanging around at home.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We were out there on the town making all the rounds</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Of every club with music we had known.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We’d be rockin’ and rollin’, struttin’ and strollin’;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We’d boogie down with all our hearts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">And there were even days in our natty disco phase</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">When we feverishly dressed the part.</span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We would swing; we would twist; we would jump and jive the night away.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We’d have a fling, kick up our heels when we jitterbugged in younger days.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We would move to a saxophone low down and dirty;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">It made us resolve we were never turning thirty.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We’d swing; we’d twist; we’d jump and jive the night away.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">“Oh, I’ll go if you’ll go,” I said. “I’ll go if you’ll go,” she said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We limbered up our muscles, stepped out on the floor,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Filled with high hopes . . . instead . . .</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">. . . I’m here to tell you sadly that the evening ended badly,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">But I bet you all had your doubts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Instead of scootin’ and shufflin’ we were huffin’ and puffin’</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">After not that many twists and shouts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">It hurt like hell when she tore her ACL</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Swiveling two ways at once;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I’m sure I slipped a disc when I reached and badly missed</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Her embrace; I’ll be down for months.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We tried to swing; we tried to twist; we tried to jump and jive the night away.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">I tried to fling her in the air like when we jitterbugged in younger days.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">Instead of being indestructible, we fulfilled deductibles</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">For something like a lifetime and a half.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We tried to swing; we tried to twist; we tried to jump and jive the night away.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: small;">We tried to swing; we tried to twist; we tried to jump and jive the night away.</span></p>