Young Man Blues (Live)

Stage banter on Deluxe Edition only

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—

Just play the tune

(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—

A teenager!

Just a mere teenager, and he called it, "Young Man Blues."

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

Well, you know in the old days

When a young man was a strong man

All the people they stepped back

When a young man walked by

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, I say

Ain't got nothin'

Ain't got sweet fuck all!

Everybody knows, everybody knows, everybody knows

He ain't got—

Ooh, yeah!

Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah!

Yeah

Get it

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!

Nowadays, if you're the young man

You ain't got nothin' in the world these days, I said!

They ain't got nothin'

Ain't got sweet fuck all!

Thank you