The World Is For The Young - Herman's Hermits, Stanley Holloway

Gloria:

I was looking in the mirror last night

My grey hair turned to black

I was looking in the mirror last night

And pleasant memories came back

I remember the time when i was seventeen

And all the things that i wanted to do

The world was new

Tulip:

The world is for the young

C’mon, we’re on our way

Its a wonderful place

But when we done what we’re going to do

Then we’ll have changed it’s face

Mr Brown:

Searching through some papers one day

A sweet scent filled the air

It came from the letter i found

And a lock of dark hair

It belonged to a girl who was in love with me

And she written that without me, she’d die

Mrs Brown: I wonder why?

Mrs Brown:

Looking through an album last night

I came acrossed a snap

That showed a handsome youth

With a girl sitting on his lap

«Valentino?»

i thought, with his sleeked black hair

And Mary Pigford was on his knee

But it was me!

Mr & Mrs:

The world is for the young

But they’ll soon find out

When they come to explore

The strange new lands of expirience

But we’ve been there before

Mr:

Trying to recapture the past

Only makes me regret

The passing of an age and all the people that i’ve met

Gloria:

A ride on a tram on the upper deck

With a boy with a Fairbanks moustache

We were so rash

All:

The world is for the young

It was always so

Mr, Mrs, Gloria:

It’s not ours anymore

But, they’ll find out when they follow us

'cause we’ve been there before