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When I Was Young
(Burdon - Briggs - Weider - Jenkins - McCulloch)
Intro:
Em
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(5X: 1: bass (eighth notes) w/cymbal
2: electric guitar (tune low E down to D and back up)
3: acoustic guitar enters
4: violin enters)
Em D
Verse 1: The rooms were so much colder then
Em D
My father was a soldier then
Em D
And times were very hard
Em
When I was young
Riff 1 (guitar and violin, arranged for two guitars):
(Em)
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(young)
/D Em (Riff 1)
When I was young
Verse 2: 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)
Em
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G Em
Bridge: When I was young it was more important
D
Pain, more pain, but I laughed so much louder, yeah
Em
When I was young (Riff 1)
(D) Em
When I was young (Riff 1)
Verse 3: 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)
/D Em (N.C.)
When I was young
Instrumental break:
(key changes to Gm):
Gm F } 3X
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Gm
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Chorus (in Bb)
Bb Gm
When I was young it was more important
F
Pain, more pain, though I laughed so much louder, yeah
Gm
When I was young
Riff 2 (guitar and violin, arranged for two guitars):
(Gm)
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(young) * * * parts do not always track
in parallel fifths
Gm (N.C.)
When I was young
Verse 4 (chords implied by bass):
Gm F
My faith was so much stronger then
Gm F
I believed in fellow men
Gm F
And I was so much older then
Gm (acoustic guitar strums Gm chord; violin enters)
When I was young
When I was young
Coda:
(band re-enters)
(Gm)
When I was young (repeat to fade)
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