ANIMALS - "When I Was Young" Tablature

e: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:32:20 -0400
From: Andrew Rogers <rogers@hi.com>
Subject: a/animals/when_i_was_young.crd

"When I Was Young"
(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--
----------------------------------------------|----
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(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--
----------------------------------------------|----
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(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]


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers