Yesterday When I Was Young

Am7            D7
Yesterday when I was young

                      Gmaj7        
The taste of love was sweet as rain
        Cmaj7
 upon my tongue;

                   F#m7         
I teased at life as if it were a 
         B7
foolish game

                      Em         
The way the evening breeze may 
B+             E7
tease a candle flame.


                       Am7         
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the 
                    D7
splendid things I planned--

                  Gmaj7            
I always built to last on weak and 
          Cmaj7
shifting sand;

                     F#m7       
I lived by night and shunned the 
               B7
naked light of day,

               Em           B+    
And only now I see how the years 
    E7
ran away.


       Am7            D7
Yesterday when I was young,

               Gmaj7               
So many happy songs were waiting to
    Cmaj7
 be sung,

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                Am7             
So many wayward pleasures lay in 
           B7
store for me,

                    Em          
And so much pain my dazzled eyes 
   B+        E7
refused to see.


                   Am7             
I ran so fast that time and youth, 
              D7
at last, ran out,

                    Gmaj7          
I never stopped to think what life 
         Cmaj7
was all about;

                Am7             
And ev'ry conversation I can now 
    B7
recall

                      Em     
Concerned itself with me, and 
 B+               E7
nothing else at all.


      Am7               D7
Yesterday the moon was blue,

                Gmaj7      
And ev'ry crazy day brought 
                 Cmaj7
something new to do,

                F#m7               
I used my magic age as if it were a
  B7
 wand,

                  Em       
And never saw the waste and 
  B+          E7
emptiness beyond.


                    Am7       
The game of love I played with 
                D7
arrogance and pride,

         Gmaj7   Cmaj7
And ev'ry flame I lit too quickly, 
quickly died;

                        F#m7 
The friends I made all seemed 
                   B7
somehow to drift away

               Em       B+        
And only I am left on stage to end
       E7
 the play.


                    Am7            
There are so many songs in me that 
          D7
won't be sung,

                   G            
I feel the bitter taste of tears 
          Cmaj7
upon my tongue;

                          Am7      
The time has come for me to pay for
        B7
 yesterday

(N.C.)       Em   Am   Em
When I was young.