Ah, Wild Child returns! Note there are several songs by this title; for correct chord placement copy into WORD/TIMES/12:

WHEN I WAS YOUNG-2

(Words and music by Peggy Seeger, © 1962 Stormking Music, in EWAN MACCALL PEGGY SEEGER SONGBOOK, Oak, p. 77)

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When I was young, I loved a lad and gaily we was wed,
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I knew no greatest pleasure than to follow where he led,
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But when he went away to war, oh sorrow be to me,
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For you cannot follow soldiers bearing guns across the sea.

They made him leave his wife and child to march in foreign lands,
Can they make him stalk a stranger with a bayonet in his hands?
What kind of men can force a man, who's married, to agree
To take the lives of men with wives in lands across the sea.

I know no field as barren as this life I walk alone,
I know no sorrow greater than to see our growing son,
Will he, too, become a lively man till other men decree
That he lie still as his father does, in a grave across the sea.

Were I the wind I'd bring the clouds to lands that need the rain,
Were I a bird I'd sing of things that comfort men in pain,
Were I a statesman leading men in near or distant lands,
I'd pass a law that only tools of peace be in our hands.

Sorcha- the only reason I beat you to this one is I learned it back in the late 1960's.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble