The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #18142   Message #178636
Posted By: GeorgeH
15-Feb-00 - 06:53 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: When I Was a Young Man (Albion Band)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Need lyrics for 2 Albion Band songs.
BigJ, you're right, the Albion CB version is an anglified version of the first. From memory, its first verse is:

I was a young man, I was a rover,

Nothing would satisfy me but a wife;

As soon as I reached the age of twenty,

Weary was I of a single life.

I'd guess the adaptation was Martin Carthy's, as he sings it on the recording.

G.