When I Was a Young Man

When I was a young man, twenty-one

I wrote songs I was unsung

Unheralded and undone

When I was a young man

I lived in a house down a lane

It was so beautiful there, the times were insane

I wrote more songs, and I heard the rain

In that house down the lane

When I was a young man, I didn’t know

People told me, “Go, man, go”

That’s what they told me, “Go, go, go”

When I was a young man

Elder brothers, I had a few

One was named David and the other was Lou

They showed me what it was that I could do

David and Lou

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ah, yeah

Raised by mother, raised by dad

Raised by my brother in the harmony that we had

I was never lonely, and I was never sad

I was never lonely

I left home at twenty-one

I didn’t go far, I followed the sun

Making it brighter for everyone

I left home at twenty-one

Perceptive girl of twenty-one

I looked high and low, I found none

How fast can a young man run?

Let me tell you there were none

Elder brothers, they came along

There was a new David and there was Tom

They bewitched me in wardrobe and song

When I was a young man

When I was a young man

When I was a young man

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ah, yeah

Ah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ah, yeah