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Thread #25037   Message #291213
Posted By: Gary T
05-Sep-00 - 02:46 AM
Thread Name: Chords Req: Yesterday When I Was Young
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG
And now, with the line breaks some idiot forgot to put in the first time (whoops!):
       Am7            D7
Yesterday when I was young
Gmaj7 Cmaj7
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
F#m7-5 B7
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
Em Em
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
Am7 D7
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
Gmaj7 Cmaj7
I always built alas on weak and shifting sand
F#m7-5 B7
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
Em Em
And only now I see how the years ran away
Am7 D7
Yesterday when I was young
Gmaj7 Cmaj7
So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung
Am B7-9
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
Em Em
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
Am7 D7
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
Gmaj7 Cmaj7
I never stopped to think what life was all about
Am B7-9
And every conversation I can now recall
Em Em
Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all
Am7 D7
Yesterday the moon was blue
Gmaj7 Cmaj7
And every crazy day brought something new to do
F#m7-5 B7
Iused my magic age as if it were a wand
Em Em
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
Am7 D7
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
Gmaj7 Cmaj7
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
F#m7-5 B7
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
Em Em
And only I am left on stage to end the play
Am B7
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
Em A
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
Am6 Em
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday
B7 Am Em Am Em
When I was young