When You Become A Man (1967 Recording) - Nelson Riddle, Matt Monro

When you become a man the world is eager to tell you so

Although those days of climbing trees and ABCs don’t seem so long ago

Swing swing up to the sky

Mind the sun don’t get in your eye

Wash your hands it’s time for bed

Shoot the bad man bang he’s dead

When you become a man

You’re just a boy who wants bigger toys

Your toys are things like pretty girls with teeth like pearls instead of toy

cowboys

Get up daddy play with the ball

Please may I walk on that wall

Let me jump I know that I can

But when will I become a man

But when you’re a man you must fight for success

It doesn’t come easy you’ll have to confess

You’ll ask yourself why what is it all for

Until you fall in love then you’ll find even more

But when you become a man

Those bachelor days soon hurry by

They fly those days of taking hearts and breaking hearts

With a very fast goodbye

Come to me baby turn down the light

You’re gonna learn the meaning of sin tonight

Since I’ve met you I’ve never been the same

And by the way what’s your second name

When you become man

You’ll want a son named after you

So you’ve got to take a wife and build a life

Before your days are through

Wash the kids they’re in a mess

Look at his knees will you look at her dress

And why do they scream and fight all day through

When I was a kid

When I was a kid I was just like them too

When you become a man

You’ll lead the way for them to follow you

You’ll try to make their dreams come through

But you will want to do all that you can

When you become a man