When I Was Your Age

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 ninety degrees below
 We had to walk buck naked through forty miles of snow
 Worked in the coal mine twenty two 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 whiny little snot
 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 were 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 ol' 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
 I didn't have no telephone, didn't have no FAX machine
 All we had was a couple 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
 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 twelve
 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
 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
 When I was your age