Young Man Blues The Who

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]