Yesterday When I Was Young

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Yester	day when I was	young, the taste of life was	sweet as

	Bb	Em7
rain upon my	tongue, I teased at life as	if it were a foolish

	A7	Dm
	game, the way an evening	breeze may tease a candle flame.

	Gm	C7
The thousand dreams I	dreamed, the splendid things I	planned, I

	Fmaj7	Bb
always built	alas, on weak and shifting	sand, I lived by night

	Em7	A7	Dm
and	shunned the naked light of	day, and only now I	see how the

years ran away.

	Gm	C7	Fmaj7
Yester	day when I was	Young, so many drinking	songs were

	Bb	Gm	A7
waiting to be	sung, so many wild	pleasures lay in store for	me,

	Dm
and so much pain my	dazzled eyes refused to see.

	Gm	C7
I ran so fast that	time and youth at last ran	out, I never stopped

	Fmaj7	Bb	Gm
to	think what life was all	about, and every conver	sation I

	A7	Dm
can now re	call, concerned itself with	me, and nothing else at all.

	Gm	C7	Fmaj7
Yester	day the moon was	blue, and every crazy	day brought

	Bb	Em7	A7
something new to	do, I used my magic	age as if it were an	wand,

	Dm
and never saw the	waste and emptiness beyond.

	Gm	C7
The game of love I	played, with arrogance and	pride, and every flame

	Fmaj7	Bb
I	lit too quickly, quickly	died, the friends I made all

	Em7	A7	Dm
	seemed, some how to drift	away, and only I am	left, on stage to

end the play.

	Gm	A7
There are so many	songs in me that won't be	sung, I feel the bitter

	Dm	G	Gm
	taste, of tears upon my	tongue, the time has come for	me pay for

	Dm	A7	Gm	Dm	Gm
	yesterday, when	I	was	young