Young Man Blues

Stage banter on Deluxe Edition only [Pete Townshend] Uh... we'd like to carry on now, and play a song originally recorded by Mose Allison, who's really a jazz musician, and I did read something on one of his record covers which said he was a "jazz sage." And, uh, quite what that means, I don't know, but, uh— [Keith Moon] Just play the tune [Pete Townshend] (laughing) And, anyway, we've picked up quite a number of his songs, "Eyesight To The Blind," which is on the Tommy album, we picked up from him, and also this song, which I think has got to be one of his best. It's one of his own compositions, which he wrote when he was about forty— [Keith Moon] A teenager! [Pete Townshend] Just a mere teenager, and he called it, "Young Man Blues." [Crowd cheering] [Verse 1] Well a young man Ain't got nothin' in the world these days I said a young man Ain't got nothin' in the world these days [Instrumental break] [Verse 2] Well, you know in the old days When a young man was a strong man All the people stepped back When a young man walked by [Instrumental break] [Verse 2] But you know nowadays It's the old man Who's got all the money And a young man Ain't got nothin' in the world these days Ain't got nothin' Ain't got sweet fuck all! [Instrumental break] [Ad-Libs over instrumental break] Everybody knows, everybody knows He ain't got— Ooh, yeah! Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah! Yeah Everybody knows, everybody knows In the old days Everybody stepped back When a young man walked, walked by They stepped back! They stepped back! They stepped back! [Verse 4] Nowadays, if you're the young man They ain't got nothin' in the world these days, I said! They ain't got nothin' Ain't got sweet fuck all! [Crowd cheering] [Pete Townshend] Thank you