Yesterday When I Was Young
By Roy Clark

Gm7      - 3X333X
C7       - X32310
Fmaj7    - XX3210
Bbmaj7   - X13231
Em7-5    - X01333
A7-9     - X02323
Gm6      - 3X0330


      Gm7            C7
Yesterday when I was young
                      Fmaj7                 Bbmaj7
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
                    Em7-5                A7
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
                    Dm
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame

                      Gm7                            C7
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
                Fmaj7                    Bbmaj7
I always built alas on weak and shifting sand
                     Em7-5                      A7
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
               Dm
And only now I see how the years ran away


      Gm7            C7 
Yesterday when I was young
                 Fmaj7                    Bbmaj7
So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung
                Gm                         A7-9
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
                    Dm
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see


                   Gm7                        C7 
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
                   Fmaj7                   Bbmaj7
I never stopped to think what life was all about
                Gm               A7-9
And every conversation I can now recall
                      Dm
Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all


      Gm7              C7
Yesterday the moon was blue
                Fmaj7                        Bbmaj7
And every crazy day brought something new to do
                Em7-5               A7
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
                  Dm
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond


                   Gm7                       C7
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
                  Fmaj7                    Bbmaj7
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
                       Em7-5                    A7
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
              Dm
And only I am left on stage to end the play

                  Gm                        A7
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
                  Dm                     G
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
                      Gm6                 Dm       A7 Gm  Dm  
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I  was young