Rooms were so much colder then My father was a soldier then And times were very hard When I was young When I was young I smoked my first cigarette at ten And for girls I had a that yen And I had quite a ball When I was young When I was young it was more important Pain more painful and laughter not louder, yeah When I was young When I was young 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 When I was young When I was young it was more important Pain more painful and laughter not louder, yeah When I was young When I was young My faith was so much stronger then I believed in fellow men And I was so much older then When I was young When I was young When I was young When I was young When I was young When I was young When I was young

It seems the love I've known has always been The most destructive kind I guess that's why now I feel so old Before my time Yesterday when I was young The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue I teased at life as if it were a foolish game The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned I always built to last on weak and shifting sand I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day And only now I see how the years ran away Yesterday when I was young So many happy songs were waiting to be sung So many wild pleasures lay in store for me And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out I never stopped to think what life was all about And every conversation I can now recall Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all Yesterday the moon was blue And every crazy day brought something new to do I used my magic age as if it were a wand And never saw the waste and the emptiness beyond The game of love I played with arrogance and pride And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away And only I am left on stage to end the play There are so many songs in me that won't be sung I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue The time has come for me to pay For yesterday when I was young

Well I remember when I was Young the World had just begun and I was Happy I used to wonder about the Earth and how it moved around the Sun so Snappy Imagination goin wild makes a very backward child they told me So back at school Id sit around just waitin for the Sound so I could go Home Sometimes I think about it It happens every day I should think of the Present cause the Present Now Well I remember when I was young how one and Thripence got ya to the Movies To look Tough we'd Lite a Smoke and very nearly Choke but we had a real good time Growin older Meant you get to fly a saber Jet and fight a few wars So id just sit there all day and let my mind decay somethin awful Sometimes I think about it It happens every day I should think of the Present cause the Present Now Well I remember when I was Young I had a secret love who never knew it Well id do tricks upon my bike that never turned out right I allways blew it And the day we had to part I had a broken heart but couldnt let on So I spent my Holidays just thinkin of the ways I must be goin Wrong Sometimes I think about it It happens every day I should think of the Present cause the Present Now SOLO Well I remember when I was young the Beatles turned me on I really blew my mind And we'd carry Jack and Pam we'd go and watch a band and have a real good time Then I heard the Blackmans blues they really blew a fuse inside my head So with some friends we made a stand and Formed our first Blues Band it was a real good thing Sometimes I think about it It happens every day I should think of the Present cause the Present Now Well I remember when I was Young Well I remember when I was Young I Surely do Well I remember when I was Young Well I remember when I was Young I Surely do

In Biloxi Mississippi on a street called Waterloo At the roadhouse where the highway Doe's a little number there with a 42 On a chasin' for some lovin' On a humid afternoon She's delightedhe's a quitter He probably never will deliver So she leaves him with his rock 'n' roll tunes But he's still got the GTO And he still loves to drive that road He's still got a GTO mighty good It's kind of gold GTO On the blue team in Virginia Another weekend maneuver On a weekend with per diem A lot of work there for democracy There's a governor from assembly Reciting good poems from his memory And all of his money in his money jar He traded for one muscle car But he's still got the GTO And he still loves to drive that road He's still got a GTO mighty good It's kind of gold GTO In Malibu California There's a surfer do you remember He used to ride the big kahuna With Robin and Finesse They used to call him super hooter He used to rock there to wooly bully He's the one you can see him on the beach They call him old man Checking out the girls and their cars But he's still got the GTO And he still loves to drive that road He's still got a GTO mighty good It's kind of gold GTO Hahaha My GTO ... (David Munyon)

Nobody ever held a gun to my head When you and I jumped into bed I was not forced to kneel and pray To worship at the temple between your legs Look at me now... I gotta Kingsize Jones Look at me now... I gotta Kingsize Jones I'm so far from the shinin' light I left you baby twenty times before Now I'm back scratchin' at your back door Look watcha done to the man don'tcha realize Ooh child got my nose open wide Look at me now... I gotta Kingsize Jones Look at me now... I gotta Kingsize Jones I'm so far from the shinin' light I wandered far... what shall I do I'm so far from my God... ...So close to you... Lord have mercy on my soul Your tongue in my mouth makes my blood run cold Lord have mercy on me please I'm infected with this ol' heart disease Look at me now... I gotta Kingsize Jones Look at me now... I gotta Kingsize Jones I'm so far from the shinin' light I wandered far... what shall I do I'm so far from my God... ...So close to you Look at me now... I gotta Kingsize Jones Look at me now... I gotta Kingsize Jones (Jimmy Wood / J.J. Holliday)

Oooo yea. Somethin' pretty bad, Has got a hold on me. Somethin' pretty bad, people, Has got a hold on me. At night, I just can't sleep, I can't even close my eyes. I just lay awake and think, people, 'Bout that place, way across the sea. Oh I just lay awake and dream, people, About that place, way across the sea, oh yea. Where I was raised, where I was born, Place that means so much to me. Well, I dreamed I saw the city, baby, With its castles as old as time. I held hands with my baby, yes, I could hardly keep from crying. Something pretty bad, Has got a hold on me, Got a hold on me. I just dream and dream and dream and hope and pray, 'Bout that place way across the sea, Well, it means so much to me. Oh yea tell 'em. Yea, all right. Oh you'll get there, I know. So I'll just lay down in this gutter, baby, And ease my spinnin' head. Well, I'll just lay down in this gutter, people, And ease my spinnin' head. I've got to have someone to ease the pain, baby, Please help me to my bed. Yea, yea. You know somethin' pretty bad, I believe, has got a hold on me, Yea. I said somethin' pretty bad, I know, has got a grip on me. I just dream and dream and dream, 'Bout my home way across the sea. Yea, yea, yea, yea, I'm comin' home.

Oh, I was born in a dump My mama died, daddy got drunk He left me here to die or grow In the middle of Tobacco Road I grew up in a rusty shack And all I owned was hangin' on my back The Lord knows how I loathe This place called, Tobacco Road But it's home, it's really my home The only life I'll ever know But the Lord knows I loathe Tobacco Road I'm gonna leave and get a job With the help and the grace of God I save my money, get rich I know Bring it back to Tobacco Road Well, well, well Gonna bring me some dynamite, gonna bring me a crane Got to blow you up, got to tear you down, start all over again I'll rebuild the town, I'll be proud to show And keep the name of Tobacco Road But it's home, it's home The only life that I've ever known I despise you 'cause you're filthy But I love you because you're my home Tobacco Road, Tobacco Road Tobacco Road, Tobacco Road Say you're dirty and filthy I despise, I despise you 'cause you're filthy But I love you because you're my home Tobacco Road, road Talkin' about a dirty, funky, filthy low down place Tobacco Road, well, you're so dirty and filthy