Younger Men Grow Older Lyrics - Singles - Richie Havens

"Wish I was a younger man" 

Said the old man to the young man 

Oh, I told you what I would do 

That is if I could find something to do 

I never did before 

Because the younger men 

Grow older everyday 

Wish we had a better plan 

To get us where we want to go 

How useful it would be 

But I feel if we don't plan ahead 

We surely will need a helping hand 

'Cause younger men 

Grow older everyday 

Wish I could see my children grow 

And doing what they want to do 

Oh, that is all I am living for 

But if you don't tell them 

How to do what they want to do 

You find out that 

Younger men grow older everyday 

Wished we had not wrecked the land 

By understanding without a plan 

And wastin' all those lives, yeah, yeah 

So if we do not say it now 

We may never ever survive 

To hear them say 

Younger men grow older everyday 

We may not even see 

We may not even see 

We may not even see 

Younger men grow older 

Oh, no, no, no, no 

We may not even see 

Younger men grow older 

We may not even see 

We may not survive 

To even see younger men grow older 

No, no 

Younger, younger men grow older 

Older, we may not even see 

Younger men grow older