Let me tell you sonny, Let me set you straight,
You kids today ain't never had it rough.
You 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 butt-naked through forty miles of snow
Worked in the coal-mines 22 hours a day for just half a cent.
Had to sell my 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 whiney little snots,
There's something wrong with all you kids today.
You just don't appreciate all the things you've got,
We were hungry, broke and miserable and we liked it fine that way.

There was 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 old 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 coupla cans a crumby piece of string.
Didn't have no swimming pool when I was just a lad,
Our nieghbours 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.

What's the matter no sonny? So say you don't believe this junk?
You think my story's wearing kinda thin.
I'll tell you one thing, I never was such a disrespectful punk,
Back in my time, we had a thing called discipline.

Dad would whip us every night till a quarter after twelve.
Then he got too tired and he'd make us whip ourselves.
Then he chopped me into pieces and played frisbee with my brain.
And let me tell you, Junior, you never heard me complain.

When I was your age.....

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