When I Was A Young Man

Album: The Candle and the Flame (2023)
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  • 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

    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

    A 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 Writer/s: ROBERT DERWENT GARTH FORSTER
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing
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