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Sir Paul McCartney says he may perform The Beatles' classic When I'm 64 on his next tour.

McCartney, who will turn 64 on June 18, 2006, hasn't performed the song onstage before, but admits the getting time is near when it might be ready to "reactivate" the track which originally appeared on 1967's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

He told America's National Public Radio, "It's getting dangerously close I must say. If I still have the urge and the energy and the desire to be on tour then, I think that might be the year that I reactivate that song.

"Funny story with that was that I was talking to some lady and she said `You know I play piano in an old person's home and I hope you will forgive me, but I play When I'm 64,' and I said, `Oh, that's great, that's lovely, it's a great tribute.'

"And, she said, `But, I hope you will forgive me because I have to change the lyrics because 64 is very young for these people. I have to do When I'm 84.'"

McCartney wrote When I'm 64 with its lyrics about spending summers in the Isle of Wight "if it's not too dear" with grandchildren "Vera, Chuck and Dave" while he was dating British actress Jane Asher.