The rooms were so much colder then   My father was a soldier then   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 gall   When I was young      When I was young it was more important   They'd more pain but they laughed much louder yeah   When I was young, when I was young      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, when I was young      When I was young it was more important   They'd more pain but they laughed much louder yeah   When I was young, when I was young      My faith was so much stronger then   I believed in fellow man   And I was so much older then   When I was young, when I was young   When I was young, when I was young   When I was young, when I was young