When I Was Your Age Chords by Weird Al Yankovic

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[Bb] _ _ [D] Let me tell you, Sonny, let me [Dm] set you straight.
[Bb] You kids today ain't never had it rough.
_ _ [G] _ Always had everything handed to you on a silver plate.
[D] You lazy brats think nothing's good enough.
_ Well, nobody ever drove me to school when it was 90 [Bb] degrees below.
_ [D] We had to walk butt naked through 40 [Bb] miles of snow.
[D] Worked in the coal mine 22 hours a day for just [Bb] half a cent.
[D] Had to sell my internal organs just to [Bb] pay the rent.
When [D] _ _ _ _ I [F] _ [D] was your _ _ [G] _ _
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[F] _ [E] age. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] 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 got.
[D] We were hungry, broke, and miserable, and we liked it fun that way.
There were 73 of us living in a [Bb] cardboard box.
[D] All I got for Christmas was a lousy [Bb] bag of rocks.
[D] Every night for dinner, we had a big old [Bb] chunk of dirt.
[D] If we were really good, we didn't [Bb] get dessert.
When [D] I was your [A] _ _ [G] _ _
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[F] _ [D] age. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] Didn't have no telephone, didn't have no fax machine.
[D] All we had was a couple cans and a crummy piece of string.
[Bb] Didn't have no swimming [C] pool when I was just a lad.
[D] _ A septic tank was the closest thing we had.
[F] Didn't have no dental floss, had to use old rusty nails.
[G] Didn't have Nintendo, we just bought old old sleeves.
[Bb] Didn't have no water [C] bed, had to sleep on broken _ [A] glass.
Didn't have no lawnmower, we used a piece to cut the grass.
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[Bb] _ _ [D] What's the matter now, sonny?
You say you don't believe this junk.
[Bb] You think my story is wearing kind of thin.
_ _ [G] I tell you one thing, I never was such a disrespectful punk.
[D] Back in my time, we had a thing called discipline. _
_ _ My daddy would bust every night till the quarter [Bb] after twelve.
[D] Then he'd get too tired, then he'd make a [Bb] whoop of sales.
[D] Then he'd chop me into pieces, and play frisbee [Bb] with my [D] friends.
Let me tell you, junior, you never heard [Bb] me complain.
When [D] I was your [A] age.
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[F] When I [D] was your age.
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[F] When I [D] was your [A] age.
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[Bb] When I [A] was your age.
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[F] When I [D] was your age.
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[F] When I [D] was your [A] age.
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[F] When I [D] was your age.
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[F] When I [D] was your age.
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