Letra de When I Was Young — The Animals

Intro:

[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]

Verse 1:

The rooms were so much colder then
My father was a soldier then

And times were very hard
When I was young

Riff 1 [guitar and violin, arranged for two guitars]:

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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]

Bridge:

When I was young it was more important
Pain, more pain, but I laughed so much louder, yeah
When I was young [Riff 1]
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
When I was young

Instrumental break:

[key changes to Gm]:

Chorus [in Bb]

When I was young it was more important
Pain, more pain, though I laughed so much louder, yeah
When I was young

Riff 2 [guitar and violin, arranged for two guitars]:

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(young) * * * parts do not always track
in parallel fifths

When I was young

Verse 4 [chords implied by bass]:

My faith was so much stronger then
I believed in fellow men
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

When I was young [repeat to fade]

----------------- Acordes -----------------
Bb = X 1 3 3 3 1
D = X X 0 2 3 2
Em = 0 2 2 0 0 0
F = 1 3 3 2 1 1
G = 3 2 0 0 0 3
Gm = 3 5 5 3 3 3