When I Was Young

(e. burdon, d. briggs)
Producer: carter
Album: the collected recordings (94), private dancer emi centenary edition (96)
B-side of the "better be good to me" single

The rooms were so much colder then
My father was a soldier then
The times were very hard
When i was young
When i was young

I smoked my first cigarette at ten
And for boys i had a bad yen
I had quite a ball
When i was young
When i was young

When i was young it was more important
Pain more painful, the laughter much louder, yeah
When i was young
When i was young

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

When i was young it was more important
Pain more painful, the laughter much louder, yeah
When i was young

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