Guitar 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.
ⓘ Guitar chords for 'Yesterday When I Was Young' by Blossom Dearie, a female jazz artist from New York, USA. Blossom Dearie was born in 1924. She passed away in 2009.