2: electric guitar (tune low E down to D and back up)
3: acoustic guitar enters
4: violin enters]
Verse 1:
Em D
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
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————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
Bridge:
G Em
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.С.]
When I was young
Instrumental break:
[key changes to Gm]:
Gm F [3X] 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
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————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.С.] 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]
