Young and Sober Lyrics

In the year of '55
When I was but a child
I felt the Lord settle on my shoulder
Now through those childish days
He will guide my guileless ways
Where I was young and I was sober
And in the year of '65
A troubled life and troubled times
And the Lord was standing on my shoulder
And I wished that life was other
Or that I could be another
But I was me and I was young and sober

And in the year of '75
Was when I sang myself alive
And the Lord sat whistling on my shoulder
So I stood up and I said
And that's when my life began
And I was young and sober
And in the year of '85
We watched a million starve and die
And the Lord perched like the vulture on my shoulder
So we sent some bread and water
Tried our best to stop the slaughter
And we were young and sober

But in the year of '95
I loved my faithless wife
And the Devil must have muttered on her shoulder
For she left me for another
Whom I once had thought my brother
And I grew drunk and older
Set in the year of '05
With a beautiful new wife
And the Lord just sat there smiling on our shoulders
So we drank from lifer's cup
Watched our children growing up
For she had made me once again young and sober

For I was young and sober