WHEN I WAS YOUNG

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The rooms were so much colder then                                                             E
My father was a soldier then
And times were very hard                                                                       C
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I smoked my first cigarette at ten                                                             E
And for girls I had a that yen
And I had quite a ball                                                                         R
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When I was young it was more important
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Pain more painful and laughter much louder, yeah                                               U
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I met my first love at thirteen                                                                A
She was brown, and I was pretty green                                                          B
And I learned quite a lot
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When I was young it was more important                                                         N
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Pain more painful and laughter much louder, yeah
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My faith was so much stronger then
I believed in fellow men
And I was so much older then
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