Guitar chords with lyrics
INTRO:E minorEm
F#7F#7
B minorBm
E minorEm
A7A7 It seems the love I've known
D MajorD
G+G Has always been the most destructive kind
E minorEm I guess that's why now
F#7F#7 I feel so old
B minorBm Before my time
Chorus:E minorEm
A7A7 Yesterday when I was young
D MajorD
G+G the taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
E minorEm
F#7F#7 I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
B minorBm the way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame Verse:
E minorEm
A7A7 The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
D MajorD
G+G I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
E minorEm
F#7F#7 I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
B minorBm and only now I see how the years ran away
Chorus:E minorEm
A7A7 Yesterday when I was young
D MajorD
G+G so many happy songs were waiting to be sung,
E minorEm
F#7F#7 so many wild pleasures lay in store for me
B minorBm and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see Verse:
E minorEm
A7A7 I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
D MajorD
G+G I never stopped to think what life was all about
E minorEm
F#7F#7 and every conversation I can now recall
B minorBm concerned itself with me and nothing else at all Instrumental Break:
E minorEm
A7A7
D MajorD
G+G
E minorEm
F#7F#7
B minorBm Chorus:
E minorEm
A7A7 Yesterday the moon was blue
D MajorD
G+G and every crazy day brought something new to do
E minorEm
F#7F#7 I used my magic age as if it were a wand
B minorBm and never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
E minorEm
A7A7 The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
D MajorD
G+G and every flame I lit too quickly quickly died
E minorEm
F#7F#7 The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
B minorBm and only I am left on stage to end the play
E minorEm
A7A7 There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
D MajorD
G+G I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
E minorEm
F#7F#7
B minorBm The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young
ⓘ Guitar chords for 'Yesterday When I Was Young' by Roy Clark, a male country artist from Washington D.C. Roy Clark was born in 1933. Roy Clark is known for his excitable music.