Yesterday When I Was Young chords by Blossom Dearie

Chords with lyrics

Am7Am7      D7D7
Yesterday when I was young
            G7M         C7M
The taste of love was sweet as rain upon my tongue
          F#m7F#m7         B7B7
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
           E minorEm     B minorBm       E7E7
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
            Am7Am7               D7D7
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
         G7M            C7M
I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
           F#m7F#m7           B7B7
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
        E minorEm      B minorBm    E7E7
And only now I see how the years ran away
    Am7Am7      D7D7
Yesterday when I was young
       G7M           C7M
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
        Am7Am7            B7B7
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
          E minorEm       B minorBm    E7E7
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
          Am7Am7              D7D7
I ran so fast that time and youth, at last, ran out
           G7M           C7M
I never stopped to think what life was all about
        Am7Am7         B7B7
And ev'ry conversation I can now recall
           E minorEm   B minorBm        E7E7
Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all
   Am7Am7        D7D7
Yesterday the moon was blue
         G7M             C7M
And ev'ry crazy day brought something new to do
        F#m7F#m7         B7B7
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
         E minorEm     B minorBm     E7E7
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
          Am7Am7            D7D7
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
     G7M   C7M
And ev'ry flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
            F#m7F#m7          B7B7
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
        E minorEm    B minorBm        E7E7
And only I am left on stage to end the play
          Am7Am7           D7D7
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
           G7M           C7M
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
             Am7Am7       B7B7
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday
     E minorEm  A minorAm  E minorEm
When I was young.