Songs that mention specific ages.

I add to this list as I fancy. Contributions are welcome.

1

  • The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole

5

  • Sweet Sally Brown - Lonesome River Band

10

  • Born Under a Bad Sign - Albert King

12

  • Wrong Way - Sublime

16

  • Sixteen Going on Seventeen - Dashiell Eaves and Sara Zelle

  • Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard

  • Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves - Cher

17

  • I Love Rock ‘n Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

  • Strawberry Wine - Deana Carter

  • Running on Empty - Jackson Browne

  • Sixteen Going on Seventeen - Dashiell Eaves and Sara Zelle

  • Seventeen - Winger

  • I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles

  • 23 - Chayce Beckham

  • Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf

  • Dancing Queen - ABBA

  • The Way You Used To Do - Queens Of The Stone Age

  • Sweet Sally Brown - Lonesome River Band

18

  • Come Out And Play - The Offspring

  • Mary Jane’s Last Dance - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

  • 18 and Life - Alice Cooper

  • Sixteen Going on Seventeen - Dashiell Eaves and Sara Zelle

  • Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard

19

  • 19 - Paul Hardcastle

21

  • Mama Tried - Merle Haggard

  • The Wake-Up Bomb - R.E.M.

  • 23 - Chayce Beckham

  • Jewel of the Summertime - Audioslave

  • A New England - Billy Bragg

  • Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves - Cher

22

  • Hold On - Alabama Shakes

  • Who Do You Love? - Bo Diddley, George Thorogood, etc.

  • Jerry Was A Racecar Driver - Primus

  • A New England - Billy Bragg

23

  • Gangster’s Paradise - Coolio

  • Pardon Me - Incubus

  • Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

  • What’s My Age Again - Blink 182

  • I’m My Own Grandpa - Latham and Jaffe, Lonzo and Oscar, etc.

  • Visions - Blossoms

  • Streets of Where I’m From - Old 97s

  • 23 - Chayce Beckham

24

  • Gangster’s Paradise - Coolio

  • Old Man - Neil Young

  • 1985 - SR-71 (covered by Bowling for Soup)

  • 23 - Chayce Beckham

25

  • All the Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople

  • Streets of Where I’m From - Old 97s

  • Fly - Sugar Ray

26

  • Something by New Old-Fashioned, cannot remember

  • 19 - Paul Hardcastle

26 1/2

  • Albuquerque - “Weird Al” Yankovic

27

  • Something by New Old-Fashioned, cannot remember

  • Am I Evil - Diamond Head

  • Snap - Rosa Linn

  • Deeper Well - Casey Musgraves

30

  • The Real Slim Shady - Eminem

  • Strawberry Wine - Deana Carter

31

  • I’m a Real Man - Robben Ford

36

  • Without Me - Eminem

60

  • Sixty Years On - Elton John

64

  • When I’m Sixty-Four - Beatles

65

  • Jerry Was A Racecar Driver - Primus

83

  • E-Bow the Letter - R.E.M.

  • Gwendolyn Bartley - Kyle M

92

  • The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole