From the recording Thirty One More Time (click for lyrics & picture)
Lyrics
Well you say you're turning thirty, well I know just how you feelYou see I've been there, a couple of times myselfIt's been good along the way, raising you my sonI look at you and see so much of me
I watched you grow up to hear you sing I'm so damn proud it makes me yearnThirty I wish you were mine, one more timeTo go back in time with you on my kneePlaying your guitar, strumming for meThirty I wish you were mine, one more time
Well you say you're turning thirty, well I know just how you feelWe only once go along this roadThese simple words from your old Dad, a way for me to tellKeep playing music, make the people feel
I watched you grow up to hear you singI'm so damn proud it makes me yearnThirty I wish you were mine, one more timeTo go back in time with you on my kneePlaying your guitar, strumming for meThirty I wish you were mine
Sitting in the living room listening to you, playing your guitar and singingThinking someday you'd be writing your own songsMom and I dancing, watching you playing your songs Telling our friends, that's our boy on stage in the band
Thirty I wish you were mine, thirty I wish you were mine Thirty I wish you were mine, one more timeThirty I wish you were mine, thirty I wish you were mine, all mineThirty I wish you were mine, one more timeMom and I watching you, one more timeOh thirty, I wish you were mine