When I Was Young
(Burdon - Briggs - Weider - Jenkins - McCulloch)

Intro:
Em 
/  /  /  /   /  /  /  /
(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 )
 v          v          v          v             v
------------12-14-12---10-12-10---9--10--9----|-7--
------------10-12-10---8--10-8----7--8---7----|-5--
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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 
/ / / /  / / / /

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 )
 v          v          v          v             v
------------15-17-15---14-15-14---12-14--12---|-10-
------------13-15-13---11-13-11---10-11--10---|-8--
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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)