Yesterday When I Was Young chords by Blossom Dearie

Am7            D7
Yesterday when I was young
                       G7M                  C7M
The taste of love was sweet as rain upon my tongue
                   F#m7                  B7
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
                      Em         Bm             E7
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
                       Am7                             D7
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
                  G7M                        C7M
I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
                     F#m7                      B7
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
               Em           Bm        E7
And only now I see how the years ran away
       Am7            D7
Yesterday when I was young
              G7M                     C7M
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
                Am7                        B7
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
                    Em             Bm        E7
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
                   Am7                           D7
I ran so fast that time and youth, at last, ran out
                      G7M                     C7M
I never stopped to think what life was all about
                Am7                 B7
And ev'ry conversation I can now recall
                      Em      Bm               E7
Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all
      Am7               D7
Yesterday the moon was blue
                  G7M                         C7M
And ev'ry crazy day brought something new to do
                F#m7                 B7
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
                  Em         Bm          E7
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
                    Am7                       D7
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
         G7M     C7M
And ev'ry flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
                        F#m7                    B7
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
               Em       Bm               E7
And only I am left on stage to end the play
                    Am7                      D7
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
                     G7M                      C7M
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
                          Am7              B7
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday
         Em   Am   Em
When I was young.