Yesterday, I celebrated my 40th birthday. I'm neither proud nor ashamed of that number – it's just a number. When my wife was pregnant with our second child, I was doing weekly posts with songs featuring a number in their titles that corresponded with the number of weeks of her pregnancy. Our daughter was born a few days early, so I never got a chance to put together the "40" Songs. For both of those reasons, there's this lengthy post. Enjoy? ~ JH
1) Jimmy Buffett ~ “A Pirate Looks At Forty”
2) Sesame Street ~ “Forty Blocks From Home”
3) Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers ~ “40 Days & 40 Nights”
4) Royal Crown Revue ~ “40 Cups Of Coffee”
5) Alabama ~ “Forty Hour Week (For A Livin’)”
6) Yonder Mountain String Band ~ “40 Miles From Denver”
7) Caedmon’s Call ~ “40 Acres”
8) Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks ~ “40 Days”
9) U2 ~ “40”
10) Tom T. Hall ~ “The Ballad Of Forty Dollars”
11) The Longing ~ “40 Days”
12) The Mountain Goats ~ “Psalms 40:2”
13) Third Day ~ “40 Days”
14) Ricky Skaggs ~ “Highway 40 Blues”
15) Dido ~ “See You When You’re 40”
16) Johnny Horton ~ “When It’s Springtime In Alaska (It’s Forty Below)”
17) Franz Ferdinand ~ “40’”
18) Duane Eddy ~ “Forty Miles Of Bad Road”
19) Vienna Teng ~ “Love Turns 40”
20) Chris Norman ~ “Forty Years On”
21) The Twilight Singers ~ “Forty Dollars”
22) Sophie Tucker ~ “Life Begins At Forty”
23) Frank Turner ~ “Love Forty Down”
24) Buddy Guy, Ronnie Wood, & Jonny Lang ~ “Forty Days And Forty Nights”
25) Newsong ~ “Psalm 40”
26) Eric Johnson ~ “Forty Mile Town”
27) Porter Wagoner ft. Christie Lynn ~ “Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff”
28) Wire ~ “Forty Versions”
29) Cursive ~ “Dorothy At Forty”
30) Neil Sedaka ~ “Forty Winks Away”
31) The Devil Makes Three ~ “Forty Days”
32) Paul Kelly ~ “Forty Miles To Saturday Night”
33) The Violet Burning ~ “40 Weight”
34) Skinny Lister ~ “Forty Pound Wedding”
35) Johnny Cash ~ “Forty Shades Of Green”
36) Bruce Cockburn ~ “40 Years In The Wilderness”
37) Spinning Lucy ~ “Forty”
38) Modern Kin ~ “40 Winks”
39) John Berry ~ “Forty Again”
40) Ray Price ~ “Forty And Fading”
