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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
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