"Weird Al" Yankovic – When I Was Your Age (Guitar)

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From the album ''Off the Deep End'' (1992) [Intro] D D D D D Dm G Bb Dm G Bb Dm G Bb Dm G Bb [Verse 1]
Dm
Let me tell you, sonny. Let me set you straight

    Bb
You kids today ain't never had it rough

G
Always had everything handed to you on a silver plate

    Dm
You lazy brats think nothing's good enough

      Dm                                          G               Bb
Well, nobody ever drove me to school when it was ninety degrees below

Dm                                 G              Bb
We had to walk butt naked through forty miles of snow

Dm                                          G                   Bb
Worked in the coal mine twenty two hours a day for just half a cent

Dm                              G               Bb
Had to sell my internal organs just to pay the rent
[Chorus 1]
            Dm      G Bb             Dm      G Bb
When I was your age.     When I was your age

            Dm      G Bb             Dm      A
When I was your age.     When I was your age
[Verse 2]
Dm
Let me tell you something, you whiny little snot

         Bb
There's something wrong with all you kids today

G
You just don't appreciate all the things you've got

        Dm
We were hungry, broke and miserable and we liked it fine that way

Dm                                    G               Bb
There were seventy-three of us living in a cardboard box

Dm                             G            Bb
All I got for Christmas was a lousy bag of rocks

Dm                              G             Bb
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt

D           Dm             G          Bb
If we were really good we didn't get desert
[Chorus 2]
            Dm      G Bb             Dm      G Bb
When I was your age.     When I was your age

            Dm      G Bb             Dm      A
When I was your age.     When I was your age
[Bridge 1]
F
Didn't have no telephone didn't have no FAX machine
g All we had was a couple of cans and a crummy piece of string
Bb                                C
Didn't have no swimming pool when I was just a lad

Dm
Our neighbor's septic tank was the closest thing we had

F
Didn't have no dental floss had to use old rusty nails

G                                                   G
Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails

Bb                                 C
Didn't have no water bed, had to sleep on broken glass

A
Didn't have no lawnmower, we used our teeth to cut the grass
[Solo] Dm G Bb Dm G Bb Dm G Bb Dm G Bb [Verse 3]
Dm
What's the matter now, sonny, you say you don't believe this junk?

Bb
You think my story's wearin' kinda thin?

G
I tell you one thing, I never was such a disrespectful punk

Dm
Back in my time, we had a thing called discipline

Dm                                    G              Bb
Dad would whip us every night till a quarter after twelve

Dm                                G              Bb
Then he'd get too tired and he'd make us whip ourselves

            Dm                          G               Bb
Then he'd chop me into pieces and play frisbee with my brain

Dm                               G                  Bb
And let me tell ya, Junior, you never heard me complain
[Chorus 3]
            Dm      G Bb             Dm      G Bb
When I was your age.     When I was your age

            Dm      G Bb             Dm      A
When I was your age.     When I was your age

            Dm      G Bb             Dm      A
When I was your age.     When I was your age