“When I Was A Young Man”

Description

As a young man the singer "was drinking and a-smoking, boys, from morning unto night." When he had spent all his money he worked for more. He was enraged when he "walked into the public house and I called for a pint of the best" but got "the slop"

Recordings

  • Wiggy Smith, "When I Was A Young Man" (on Voice13)

References

  1. Roud #12931
  2. BI, RcWIWAYM

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1995 (recording, Wiggy Smith)
Keywords: drink lie
Found in: Britain(England(South))