Yesterday When I Was Young.
Willie Nelson.
Album: First Rose Of Spring.
Capo 3.
(If preferred in original
key transpose down to Gm)
Intro: Em
A Am D7
Yesterday, when I was young,
Gmaj7 Cmaj
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue,
C Am B
A tease of life as if it were a foolish game,
Em
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame,
Am D
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
Bm Gmaj7 G Cmaj
I always built to last on weak and shifting sand,
Am B7
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day,
Em
And only now I see how the years have ran away,
Am C D
Yesterday, when I was young,
Gmaj7 Cmaj
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung,
Am Bm B
So many wild pleasures lay in store for me,
Em
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see,
Am D
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out,
Gmaj7 Cmaj
I never stopped to think what life was all about,
Am B
And every conversation I can now recall,
Em Em EmMaj7
Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all,
Solo: Am D G C D C Cmaj7 B B7 Em
Am D
Yesterday, the moon was blue,
Gmaj7 Cmaj
And every crazy day brought something new to do,
Am B
And I used my magic age as if it were a wand,
Em
I never saw the waste and emptiness beyond,
Am D
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride,
Gmaj7 Cmaj
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died,
Am B7
The friends I made all seemed, somehow, to drift away,
Em
And only I am left on stage to end the play,
Am Cmaj D
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung,
Gmaj7 Cmaj
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue,
Gmaj7 Am B B7
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday,
Em
When I was young.
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