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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:32:20 -0400
From: Andrew Rogers 
Subject: a/animals/when_i_was_young.crd

                           "When I Was Young"
            (Burdon - Briggs - Weider - Jenkins - McCulloch)

Intro:

	Em (022000@1)/  /  /  /   /  /  /  /

	[5X: 1: bass (eighth notes) w/cymbal
	     2: electric guitar (tune low Edown (022100@1)to Dand (xx0232@1)back up)
	     3: acoustic guitar enters
	     4: violin enters]

Verse 1:

	     Em (022000@1)               D (xx0232@1)The rooms were so much colder then
	    Em (022000@1)         D (xx0232@1)My father was asoldier (x02210@1)then
	     Em (022000@1)            D (xx0232@1)And times were very hard
	            Em (022000@1)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 (022000@1) [Riff 1]
	When I was young

Verse 2:

	I smoked my first cigarette at ten
	And for girls I had abad (x02210@1)yen
	And I had quite aball (x02210@1)	When I was young [Riff 1]

	Em (022000@1)/ / / /  / / / /

Bridge:

	     G (320003@1)                 Em (022000@1)When I was young it was more important
	                                                D (xx0232@1)Pain, more pain, but I laughed so much louder, yeah
	            Em (022000@1)When I was young [Riff 1]
	    (D)     Em (022000@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 alot (x02210@1)	When I was young [Riff 1]
	    /D      Em[N.C.] (022000@1)	When I was young

Instrumental break:

	[key changes to Gm]:

	Gm (355333@1)     F (133211@1)     [3X]
	/ / / /  / / / /
	Gm (355333@1)/ / / /  / / / /

Chorus [in Bb]

	     Bb (x1333x@1)                Gm (355333@1)When I was young it was more important
	                                                   F (133211@1)Pain, more pain, though I laughed so much louder, yeah
	            Gm (355333@1)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 (355333@1)[N.C.]
	When I was young

Verse 4 [chords implied by bass]:

	     Gm (355333@1)               F (133211@1)My faith was so much stronger then
	Gm (355333@1)           F (133211@1)I believed in fellow men
	Gm (355333@1)               F (133211@1)And I was so much older then
	            Gm (355333@1)[acoustic guitar strums Gmchord; (355333@1)violin enters]
	When I was young
	When I was young

Coda:

	[band re-enters]

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


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers