30th Birthday Song

Words and music: Alvah Allen
Performed by: Alvah Allen

Lyrics:

Well, now six months without a drink
And my thoughts have turned to thinking
How I’d trade in all my chips
For just one day of 29

Momma check your math
While I draw my birthday bath
The wheat’s off the chaff
‘cause I’m thiry years old today

Captain ring the bell
I got flowers from Slidell
And you can all go to hell
‘cause I’m thirty years old today

Some blond-haired girl
I don’t hardly know
She got Jambalaya
Up on her stove
She’s being so sweet to me
I don’t hardly know what to say

But she got somethin’ now
I thought I could live without
And I hope I’ll still sitting here
Thirty years from today

So Captain ring the bell
I’ve got flowers from Slidell
And you can all go to hell
‘cause I’m thirty years old today

It’s the one they said I’d never make
And that’s just icing on my cake
I hate to disappoint ’em all
But I’m still here to say

Captain ring the bell
I got flowers from Slidell
And you can all go to hell
To look you couldn’t tell
I’m about to have a spell
‘cause I’m thirty years-old today

(Appeared on 1998 demo “Southern Amusement.” Written around March 1998.)