The day you're born, it must truly be said
Mothers spend sleeping, or screaming, in bed
When you reach one, you don't know what it means
But when you're ten, you've got big group gift schemes
When you are twenty, you party plenty
But when thirty, you wish you were twenty
When you're forty, you wish you were thirty
Settled, or make up time being noughty
When you're forty, you wish you were thirty
When asked your age, you lie, or get shirty
When you're fifty, you wish you were forty
You feel old, even if you're still nifty
When you are sixty, it's time to retire
Wages are dwindling, ages grow higher
When you're severnty, you envy sixties
Youngsters are giants, friends are deaf pixies
When you're near eighty, tired, ready to drop
When somebody's thirty, you ask, care to swap?.
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All the lines have ten syllables.
I saved a syllable several ties by changing you are to you're. I saved a syllable by changing nearing to near. I saved a syllable by changing soebody to someone.
