I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Hundred

"I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Hundred"
Song by The Moody Blues from the album To Our Children's Children's Children
Released 15 November 1969
Recorded May-September 1969
Length 1:06
Label Threshold Records
Writer Justin Hayward
Producer Tony Clarke
To Our Children's Children's Children track listing
Side one
  1. "Higher and Higher"
  2. "Eyes of a Child I"
  3. "Floating"
  4. "Eyes of a Child II"
  5. "I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Hundred"
  6. "Beyond"
  7. "Out and In"
Side two
  1. "Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)"
  2. "Eternity Road"
  3. "Candle of Life"
  4. "Sun is Still Shining"
  5. "I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Million"
  6. "Watching and Waiting"

"I'd Never Thought I'd Live to be a Hundred" is a 1969 song by the progressive rock band The Moody Blues, from their album To Our Children's Children's Children.

Written by Justin Hayward, the song is a short ballad about getting to do all of the things that one never got to do. This realization makes the narrator seem like he is a hundred years old to himself, as he never thought he would be able to accomplish these things.

There is also a sequel to the song, titled "I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Million." "I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Million" is only half a minute long, and basically describes the same things as "I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Hundred," except in this case, the narrator is a million.

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The Moody Blues
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