D A (3x)

            D        C#mi C#mi7
1. It's the sad eyed goodbye
   Hmi7                    G      A7
   Yesterday's moments I remember 
            D             C#mi C#mi7
   It's the bleak street, week kneed
   Hmi7         G    A7
   partings I recall 
            D                 C#
   It's the mistier mists the hazier days
       Hmi7                 A
   The brighter sun and the easier lays
           G                       D
   There's all the more reason for laughing and crying
               Dmaj7                  A
   When you're younger and life isn't too hard at all

D A (2x)

2. It's the fantastic drowse of the afternoon Sundays
   That bored you to rages of tears  
   The unending pleadings to waste all your good times
   In thoughts of your middle-aged years 
   It's the vertical hold all the things that you're told
   For the everyday hero it all turns to zero
   And there's all the more reason for living or dying
   When you're young and your troubles are all very small

D A (2x)

   E                      As
R: Out here on the street we'd gather and meet
       A                          C         D
   And scuff up the sidewalk with endlessly restless feet
   E                As               A
   Half on the time we'd broaden our minds
                                 C          D
   More in the pool hall than we did in the school hall
   E                  As
   With the down town chewing gum bums
   A                           F#             D   A
   Watching the night life the lights and the fun 

D A 

3. Never wanted to be the boy next door 
   Always thought I'd be something more 
   But it ain't easy for a small town boy 
   It ain't easy at all 
   Thinkin' it right and doin' it wrong
   It's easier from an arm chair
   Waves of alternatives wash over my sleepiness
   Have my eggs poached for breakfast I guess

D A
   (fade out)

Recitativ:
I think I'll be Clint Eastwood
Jimi Hendrix he was good
Let's try William the Conqueror
Now who else do I like?