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When I Was Your Age

This version of When I Was Your Age was released by Weird Al Yankovic in 1992.

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Let me tell you sonny… let me tell you straight
You kids today ain’t never had it tough
Always had everything handed to you on a silver plate
You lazy brats think nothing’s good enough

Well, nobody ever drove me to school when it was ninety degrees below
We had to walk buck naked through forty miles of snow
Worked in the coal mines twenty two hours a day for just half a cent
Had to sell me internal organs just to pay the rent

When I was your age. When I was your age
When I was your age. When I was your age

Let me tell you something, you whiny little snot
There’s something wrong with all you kids today
You just don’t appreciate all the things you’ve got
We were hungry, broken and miserable and we liked it fine that way

There were seventy three of us living in a cardboard box
All I got for Christmas was a lousy bag of rocks
Every night for dinner, we had a big ‘ol chunk of dirt
If we were really good, we didn’t get dessert

When I was your age. When I was your age
When I was your age. When I was your age

Didn’t have no telephone, didn’t have no FAX machine
All we had was a couple cans and a crummy piece of string
Didn’t have no swimming pool when I was just a lad
Our neighbor’s mseptic tank was the closest thing we had
Didn’t have no dental floss, had to use old rusty nails
Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails
Didn’t have no water bed, had to sleep on broken glass
Didn’t have no lawnmower, we used our teeth to cut the grass

What’s the matter now, sonny, you say you don’t believe this junk?
You think my story’s wearin’ kinda thin?
I tell you one thing, I never was such a disrespectful punk
Back in my time, we had a thing called discipline

Dad would whoop us every night till a quarter after twelve
Then he’d get too tired and he’d make us whoop ourselves
Then he’d chop me into pieces and play frisbee with my brain
And let me tell ya, Junior, you never heard me complain

When I was your age. When I was your age
When I was your age. When I was your age

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