"When I Was Young" (Burdon - Briggs - Weider - Jenkins - McCulloch) 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]: () v v v v v ------------12-14-12---10-12-10---9--10--9----|-7-- ------------10-12-10---8--10-8----7--8---7----|-5-- ----------------------------------------------|---- ----------------------------------------------|---- ----------------------------------------------|---- ----------------------------------------------|---- (young) / [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] / [N..] When I was young Instrumental break: [key changes to Gm]: [3X] / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / 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]: () v v v v v ------------15-17-15---14-15-14---12-14--12---|-10- ------------13-15-13---11-13-11---10-11--10---|-8-- ----------------------------------------------|---- ----------------------------------------------|---- ----------------------------------------------|---- ----------------------------------------------|---- (young) * * * parts do not always track in parallel fifths [N..] 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] -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers