When I Was Young
The Animals

(Burdon - Briggs - Weider - Jenkins - McCulloch)

 Intro:

         Em
         /  /  /  /   /  /  /  /

         [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:

              Em                 D
         The rooms were so much colder then
             Em           D
         My father was a soldier then
              Em              D
         And times were very hard
                     Em
         When I was young

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

         (Em)
          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)

              /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]

         Em
         / / / /  / / / /

 Bridge:

              G                   Em
         When I was young it was more important
                                                         D
         Pain, more pain, but I laughed so much louder, yeah
                     Em
         When I was young [Riff 1]
             (D)     Em
         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 [N.C.]
         When I was young

 Instrumental break:

         [key changes to Gm]:

         Gm       F       [3X]
         / / / /  / / / /
         Gm
         / / / /  / / / /

 Chorus [in Bb]

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

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

         (Gm)
          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

                     Gm  [N.C.]
         When I was young

 Verse 4 [chords implied by bass]:

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

         (Gm)
         When I was young  [repeat to fade]


source: Andrew Rogers

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