When I Was Your Age

[Verse 1]
Let me tell you sonny, let me set you straight
You kids today ain't never had it rough
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 90 degrees below
We had to walk butt naked through 40 miles of snow
Worked in the coal mine 22 hours a day for just half a cent
Had to sell my internal organs just to pay the rent

[Chorus]
When I was your age
When I was your age
When I was your age
When I was your age

[Verse 2]
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 got
We were hungry, broke and miserable, and we liked it fine that way

Well, there were 73 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

[Chorus]
When I was your age
When I was your age
When I was your age
When I was your age

[Bridge]
Didn't have no telephone, didn't have no fax machine
All we had was a couple of cans and a crummy piece of string
Didn't have no swimming pool when I was just a lad
Our neighbor's septic 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

[guitar solo]

[Verse 3]
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 'til a quarter after 12
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

[Chorus]
When I was your age
When I was your age
When I was your age
When I was your age

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