| C | |
| Walter, remember when the world was young |
| Eb | Bb | |
| And all the girls knew | Walter's n | ame? |
| F | Cm | F | Bb | |
| Walter, isn't it a sha | me the way our li | ttle world has | changed? |
| Cm7 | D | G | |
| Do you remember, Walter, playing cricket in the th | under and the rai | n? |
| Cm7 | D | G | |
| Do you remember, Walter, smoking cigarettes behind | your garden gate | ? |
| Ab | Eb | |
| Yes, | Walter was my | mate, |
| G | F | C | |
| But | Walter, my old fr | iend, where are you no | w? |
| cool drum fill over bouncing C chord... |
| melody plays over C chord, then ... |
| Eb | Bb | |
| Walter's n | ame |
| F | Cm | F | Bb | |
| Walter, isn't it a sha | me the way our li | ttle world has | changed? |
| Cm7 | D | G | |
| Do you remember, Walter, how we said we'd fight the wo | rld so we'd be fr | ee. |
| Cm7 | D | G | |
| We'd save up all our money and we'd buy a boat and sa | il away to sea | . |
| Ab | Eb | |
| But i | t was not to | be. |
| G | F | C | |
| I | knew you then but d | o I know you no | w? |
| C | Eb | Bb | |
| Walter, you are just an echo of the world we knew so | long ag | o |
| F | Cm7 | F | Bb | |
| If you saw me | now you wouldn't e | ven know my na | me. |
| Cm7 | |
| I bet you're fat and married and |
| D | G | |
| you're always home in b | ed by half-past | eight. |
| Cm7 | |
| And if I t | alked about the old times |
| D | G | |
| you'd get bored and you'll have no | thing left to | say. |
| Ab | Eb | G | F | C | |
| Yes p | eople often c | hange, but m | emories of p | eople can remai | n. |