A 20th Century Man


Lyrics and Music by Richie Kavanagh

“Johnny whats gonna happen to us in the year 2000?”

In the year two thousand they’ll look at me,
They’ll say he’s a quar auld fella ya see.
They don’t realise, when I was young, 
Life was simple an full of fun.

I know this body is full of auld bones, 
But I lived through the Beatles an’ the Rollin’ Stones.
Saw Liston an beating by Cassius Clay,
An where I was when they shot down J.F.K.

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Cos I’m a 20th century man an’ I’m living me life the best I can,
No millennium bug will interfere with me.

There was wars everywhere in Vietnam,
Their was flower power, an men on the moon.
Free love, now thats what the hippies were doing.

I wouldn’t have wanted ta live in any other time. 
I enjoyed me life, I was in my prime. 
Young people now you should do the same, 
If ye don’t ye only have yourselves ta blame.

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Cos I’m a 20th century man an I’m living me life the best I can,
No millennium bug will interfere with me.

I couldn’t put everything into this song, 
Cos all that happened would take to long.
We thought that the end of the world would come, 
A great big bang an atomic bomb.

Oh I’m a 20th century man an’ I’m living me life the best I can,
No millennium bug will interfere with me.
Yeah, Oh I’m a 20th century man an’ I’m living me life the best I can,
No millennium bug will interfere with me.
Oh yeah, 
No millennium bug will interfere with me.

About the Song,…..  A 20th Century Man.

This is a little song about growing up in the 20th century. 

I was born in 1949 ”It was a great time to be alive” until the year 2000.

In the final months of 1999 concern grew into panic that the millennium bug was going to cause computers to malfunction and potentially endanger everything from tills to power stations.

The much-hyped millennium bug failed to wreak any kind of chaos.

”So it was back to happy times again.

“Is’ent that Right Johnny?” “That’s right, that’s the truth”“Stay Wut Her Lad, An Face Her For Mount Leinster”.