When I Was Your Age

When I Was Your Age

Infobox Song
Name = When I Was Your Age


track_no = 7
Artist = "Weird Al" Yankovic
Album = Off the Deep End
Format = CD
Recorded = June 6, 1990
Genre = Comedy
Length = 4:35
Label = Scotti Brothers
Artist = "Weird Al" Yankovic
Producer = "Weird Al" Yankovic
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Off the Deep End
Type = studio
Tracks =
# "Smells Like Nirvana"
# "Trigger Happy"
# "I Can't Watch This"
# "Polka Your Eyes Out"
# "I Was Only Kidding"
# "The White Stuff"
# "When I Was Your Age"
# "Taco Grande"
# "Airline Amy"
# "The Plumbing Song"
# "You Don't Love Me Anymore"
# "Bite Me" "(Hidden Track)"

"When I Was Your Age" is a song written and performed by American parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is commonly considered a style parody of Don Henley (specifically referencing the style and instrumentation of Henley's "Dirty Laundry". In the song the narrator tells a young child how he never had it as good as he does, but takes it to exaggerated lengths: "...nobody ever drove me to school when it was ninety degrees below. We had to walk buck naked through forty miles of snow".

Notes

*"When I Was Your Age" was one of the eight songs recorded for "Off the Deep End" in 1990 (The others were "The Plumbing Song", "I Can't Watch This", "The White Stuff", "You Don't Love Me Anymore", "Trigger Happy", "Airline Amy", and "Waffle King", which was released on the "Smells Like Nirvana" single). Due to the lack of a strong lead-off parody, the album's release was delayed until a lead-off parody could be found (In this case it was "Smells Like Nirvana" a parody of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit").

Exaggerated examples

The narrator names many different examples of how bad he had it when he was just a kid, all in a rhyming fashion. They include:

*"Worked in the coal mines twenty two hours a day for just half a cent"
*"Had to sell my internal organs just to pay the rent"
*"We were hungry, broken 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"
*"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"
*"My dad would whoop us every night till a quarter after twelve"
*"Then he'd get too tired and he'd make us whoop us'selves"
*"Then he'd chop me into pieces and play frisbee with my brain"

See also

* List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic


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