♪ The rooms were so much colder then My father was a soldier then Times were very hard when I was young, yeah When I was young Smoked my first cigarette at ten And for girls I had a bad year I learned so very much when I was young, yeah When I was young When I was young it was more important Painful, painful laughter 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 I learned so very much when I was young, yeah When I was young La la la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la la la When I was young it was more important Pain more, pain more, laughter much louder, yeah When I was young When I was young My faith was so much stronger then I really did believe in my fellow man I was really so much older then When I was young When I was young When I was young When I was young, yeah When I was young, yeah When I was young, Lord, oh yeah