Am                     G  
The rooms were so much colder then
     Am            G
My father was a soldier then
    Am               G 
And times were very hard
             Am      G
When I was young
 F           Am      G 
When I was young

  Am                   G            
I smoked my first cigarette at ten
     Am                G   
And for girls I had a that yen
    Am             G
And I had quite a ball
            Am    
When I was young

ПРОИГРЫШ: G-F-Am-G

     F                   G 
When I was young it was more important
  F                      G        
Pain more painful and laughter much louder, yeah
             Am       G
When I was young
 F           Am       G
When I was young

ПРОИГРЫШ: G-F-Am-G

I met my first love at thirteen
She was brown, and I was pretty green
And I learned quite a lot
When I was young
When I was young

When I was young it was more important
Pain more painful and laughter much louder, yeah
When I was young
When I was young

My faith was so much stronger then
I believed in fellow men
And I was so much older then
When I was young
When I was young
When I was young...