Key: E major
Verse 1
E
B
A
B
E
B
F#
When I was a young man
B
C#m
B
A
G#m
I navigated stormy seas
F#m
E
B
between earth -shifting sands
E
B
When I was a young man
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B
E
B
F#
B
C#m
B
A
G#m
Investigated all my needs
F#
E
B
whenever I hit land
Am
G
Mother, please forgive me
F#m
F#
for forgetting you forget
F
Am
G
Father, I forgive you for
F#m
F#
F
E
regretting that we met
A
B
E
B
F#
now I'm not a young man
B
C#m
B
A
The ship's the same, but I refrain
G#m
F#m
F#
E
B
From shouting what I know
E
B
Now I'm not a young man,
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B
E
B
F#
now I'm not a young man
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C#m
B
A
G#m
As years go by and friends they die,
F#m
E
B
they leave me living slow
Am
G
Mother, I remember the
F#
F
cat dying on the road
Am
G
Father, gotta thank you
F#m
F#
F
E
for the cardboard in the hood
A
B
E
B
F#
felt just like an old man
B
C#m
B
A
G#m
My memory has failed on me,
F#m
F#
E
B
and left me holding cans
E
B
A
Now I'm not a young man,
B
E
B
F#
don't wanna be a young man
B
C#m
B
A
G#m
There's no attraction I can't see,
F#
E
I stick to making money
B
Am
G
Mother, I remember you
F#m
F
were ready for your call
Am
G
Father, I'll forgive you for your
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F#
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Am
G
F#
F
E
silence and your call
When I was a young man
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A
B
E
B
A
Yeah, when I was a young man
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E
B
A
when I was a young man
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E
B
when I was a young man
A
B
E
B
yeah when I was a young man
Outro 1
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B
E
B
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