The rooms were so much colder then My father was a soldier then Times were very hard When I was young When I was young 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 When I was young, it was more important Pain more painful, the laughter much louder, yeah When I was young When I was young Don't you know I met my first love at thirteen She was brown, and I was pretty green I learned so very much When I was young When I was young Oh my love Oh my love Oh my love Nanananananananana Yeah When I was young, it was more important Pain more painful, laughter much louder, yeah When I was young When I was young My faith was so much stronger then I believed in fellow men I was really so much older then When I was young When I was young When I was young Baby Baby Baby Baby When I was a wild child Just a cabin sweep without no shoes When I was young When I was young When I was young When I was young, yeah