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






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