When I Was Young

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The rooms were so much colder then My father was a soldier then
     Em              D               Em        /D     Em   [Riff 1]
And times were very hard When I was young When I was young

I smoked my first cigarette at ten And for girls I had a bad yen
And I had quite a ball When I was young [Riff 1]

     G                   Em
When I was young it was more important
G                       Em                      D
Pain, more pain, but I laughed so much louder, yeah
            Em                 (D)     Em
When I was young [Riff 1] When I was young [Riff 1]

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 [Riff 1] When I was young

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     Bb                  Gm
When I was young it was more important
     Bb                  Gm                        F
Pain, more pain, though I laughed so much louder, yeah
            Gm        F     Gm
When I was young When I was young


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