Lyrics When I Was Young (Live From Zwarte Cross Festival, The Netherlands/July 27, 2013) - Eric Burdon

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, yeah
And for girls, I had a bad, yeah
I lost so very much
When I was young, when I was young, girl
When I was young it was more important
Pain more painful, the laughter much louder, yeah
When I was young, yeah, when I was baby, yeah
I met my first love at thirteen
She was brown, and I was so green, yeah
And I learned so very much
When I was young, yeah, when I was young, yeah
When I was young it was more important
Pain more painful, laughter much louder, yeah
When I was young, when I was a baby, yeah
Don't you know my faith was so much stronger then, yeah
I really did believed in my fellow men, yeah
We had John, George Paul When I was young, when I was young
When I was a baby, baby baby
Just one time in No shoes upon my feet, When I was young, yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
Baby baby baby
When I was young, yeah, oh oh
When I was young, yeah, yeah yeah
When I was young, yeah yeah
When I was a baby, oh oh
When I was young, yeah
When I was young, baby