Yesterday When I Was Young

YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG

Transcribed by Guitar Player 
Extraordinaire,
Tim Stoll (of Lockport, New York)
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Note-for-note Guitar solo tab at 
bottom of this page!
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...........CHORDS:

...........EADGBE
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F#m....-244222-
B.........-x24442-
E.........-022100-
Esus4..-022200-
G#7....-464544-
C#m....-x46654-
C#m9..-x46644-
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Intro:

----------------------F#m 

It seems the love I've known...
-----------B 

has always been...
---------------------E (Esus4) E 

the most destructive kind.
-------------------F#m 

I guess that's why now...
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------------G#7 

I've feel so old...
-----------C#m (C#m9) C#m 

Before my time.

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VERSE:
-----------F#m---------------B 

Yes - ter - day___when I was young,
---------------------Emaj7--------

-|---------Amaj7 

the taste of life was sweet as rain 
up-on my tongue.
-----------F#m--------------------

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I teased at life as if it were a 
fool-ish game.
----------------------C#m 

The way the eve-ning breeze may 
tease a can-dle flame.


(continue progression from verse 
above throughout song)

The thousand dreams I dreamed; the 
splendid things I planned.
I always built, alas, on weak and 
shifting sand.
I lived by night and shunned the 
naked light of day,
and only now I see how the years ran
 away.


Yesterday when I was young,
so many drinking songs were waiting 
to be sung.
So many wayward pleasures lay in 
store for me,
and so much pain my dazzled eyes 
refused to see.


I ran so fast that time and youth at
 last ran out.
I never stopped to think what life 
was all about,
and every conversation I can now 
recall,
concerned itself with me, and 
nothing else at all.


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(Guitar solo)
See note-for-note tab below!
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Yesterday the moon was blue,
and every crazy day brought 
something new to do.
I used my magic age as if it were a 
wand,
and never saw the waste and 
emptiness beyond.


The game of love I played with 
arrogance and pride,
and every flame I lit to quickly 
quickly die.
The friends I made all seemed 
somehow to drift away,
and only I am left on the stage to 
end the play.


There are so many songs in me that 
won't be sung.
I feel the bitter taste of tears 
upon my tongue.
The time has come for me to pay for 
Yesterday...
When I Was Young.

Note-for-note Guitar solo tab:

E-----------------------------4---
B-------------4----5----7---------
G--------6------------------------
D---6-----------------------------
A---------------------------------
E---------------------------------

E|-5-------------5--4--5~9---7------
B|----------------------------------
G|----------------------------------
D|----------------------------------
A|----------------------------------
E|----------------------------------

E---7----5----4----------4--------
B-------------------7-------------
G---------------------------------
D---------------------------------
A---------------------------------
E---------------------------------

E|----------4---------4----7----5---
B|----------------7-----------------
G|----------------------------------
D|----------------------------------
A|----------------------------------
E|----------------------------------

E---5-(h)7-(p)5----4--------------
B-----------------------7----6----
G---------------------------------
D---------------------------------
A---------------------------------
E---------------------------------

E|---------------------------5----4-
B|7------------7---6---7------------
G|----------------------------------
D|----------------------------------
A|----------------------------------
E|----------------------------------

E---4-(h)5-(p)4-------------------
B------------------7----5----4----
G---------------------------------
D---------------------------------
A---------------------------------
E---------------------------------

E|----------------------------------
B|-----------------4-(h)5--4--------
G|-6------------6-----------------6-
D|----------------------------------
A|----------------------------------
E|----------------------------------

E|------------| 
B|------------| 
G|--5---6~----| 
D|------------| 
A|------------| 
E|------------|