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When I Was Young chords by 
Ewan Maccoll
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Verse 1
Am
When I was young
Em
I loved a lad in Galew he was wed
Am
I knew no greater pleasure
C
Em
than to follow where he led
Am
But when he went away to war,
G
oh sorrow be to me
E
Am
For you can not follow
G
soldiers
E
Am
bearing guns across the sea
They made him leave his wife
Em
and child to march
Am
Can they make him stalk a stranger
C
Em
with a bayonet in his hands?
Am
What kind of men can force
G
a man who's married
E
Am
G
to agree to take the lives of men with wives
E
Am
in lands across the sea
G
I know no field more barren
Am
Em
than this life I live alone
Am
I know no sorrow greater
C
than to see our growing son
Em
Am
Will he too become a lively man
G
E
till other men decree
Am
G
That he lies still as his father does
E
Am
in a grave across the sea?
Were I the wind
I'd bring the clouds
Em
to lands that need the rain
Am
Were I a bird,
I'd sing of things
Em
that comfort men in pain
Am
Were I a statesman
G
E
leading men in near or distant lands
Am
I'd pass a law
G
that only two rules of peace
E
Am
would be in our hands you
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