Yesterday When I Was Young chords by Roy Clark

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

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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