WHEN I WAS YOUNG 040615_a - PAPER BOAT

James Michael Taylor

My favorite song by Jane Bowers
She was still alive back when I 1st learned
this song from the Kingston Trio.
I didn’t know, back then, that I could have met her.

WHEN I WAS YOUNG by Jane Bowers

When I was young and dreams were new,
I loved a girl who looked like you.
I saw her face in mountains stream.
I lingered there and lost myself in dreams.

But we were young and tossed away
Our precious love along the way.
We parted strangers, thoughtless and free
And set our hearts to wandering aimlessly.

But looking back, somehow I see
How seldom love has come to me.
And I confess that now and then
I think of her remembering when

If I were young and dreams were new,
I’d love a girl who looks like you.
I’d hold her close if she’d agree
To love perhaps a boy who looked like me.

Oooooo—

(P) 2015 Royal T Music
(C) 1960 Jane Bowers

Jane Bowers (May 29, 1921 – June 18, 2000) was a Texas folk singer and songwriter best known for her composition “Remember the Alamo”.