When I was a young man twenty-one
I wrote songs I was unsung
Unheralded and undone
When I was a young man

I lived in a house down a lane
It was so beautiful there the times were insane
I wrote more songs and I heard the rain
In that house down the lane

When I was a young man I didn't know
People told me, “Go man go. ”
That's what they told me, “Go go go. ”
When I was a young man

Elder brothers I had a few
One was named David and the other was Lou
They showed mе what it was that I could do
David and Lou
Yeah yeah yeah yеah yeah ah yeah

Raised by mother raised by dad
Raised by my brother in the harmony that we had
I was never lonely and I was never sad
I was never lonely

I left home at twenty-one
I didn't go far I followed the sun
Making it brighter for everyone
I left home at twenty-one

A perceptive girl of twenty-one
I looked high and low I found none
How fast can a young man run
Let me tell you there were none

Elder brothers they came along
There was a new David and there was Tom
They bewitched me in wardrobe and song

When I was a young man
When I was a young man
When I was a young man
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ah yeah