When I Grow Up (to Be a Man)

When I grow up to be a man

Will I dig the same things that turn me on as a kid?

Will I look back and say that I wish I hadn't done what I did?

Will I joke around and still dig those sounds

(Will I still joke around and still dig those sounds?)

When I grow up to be a man?

Will I look for the same things in a woman that I dig in a girl?

(Fourteen, fifteen)

Will I settle down fast or will I first wanna travel the world?

(Sixteen, seventeen)

Now I'm young and free but how will it be

(I'm young and free, how will it be?)

When I grow up to be a man?

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Will my kids be proud or think their old man is really a square?

(Eighteen, nineteen)

When they're out having fun yeah, will I still wanna have my share?

(Twenty, twenty-one)

Will I love my wife for the rest of my life

(Will I love my wife rest of my life)

When I grow up to be a man?

What will I be when I grow up to be a man?

(Twenty-two, twenty-three)

Won't last forever

(Twenty-four, twenty-five)

It's kind of sad

(Twenty-six, twenty-seven)

Won't last forever

(Twenty-eight, twenty-nine)

It's kind of sad

(Thirty, thirty-one)

Won't last forever

(Thirty-two)