Let me tell you sonny... let me tell you straight
  You kids today ain't never had it tough
  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 mines twenty two hours a day for just half a cent
  Had to sell me 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, 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
    When I was your age. When I was your age
  When I was your age. When I was your age
    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 mseptic 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 till 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