Roy Clark - Yesterday, When I Was Young guitar chord

Yesterday When I Was Young

By Roy Clark

Gm7 - 3X333X

C7 - X32310

Fmaj7 - XX3210

Bbmaj7 - X13231

Em7-5 - X01333

A7-9 - X02323

Gm6 - 3X0330

Gm7 C7

Yesterday when I was young

Fmaj7 Bbmaj7

The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue

Em7-5 A7

I teased at life as if it were a foolish game

Dm

The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame

Gm7 C7

The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned

Fmaj7 Bbmaj7

I always built alas on weak and shifting sand

Em7-5 A7

I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day

Dm

And only now I see how the years ran away

Gm7 C7

Yesterday when I was young

Fmaj7 Bbmaj7

So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung

Gm A7-9

So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me

Dm

And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see

Gm7 C7

I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out

Fmaj7 Bbmaj7

I never stopped to think what life was all about

Gm A7-9

And every conversation I can now recall

Dm

Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all

Gm7 C7

Yesterday the moon was blue

Fmaj7 Bbmaj7

And every crazy day brought something new to do

Em7-5 A7

I used my magic age as if it were a wand

Dm

And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond

Gm7 C7

The game of love I played with arrogance and pride

Fmaj7 Bbmaj7

And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died

Em7-5 A7

The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away

Dm

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

Dm G

I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue

Gm6 Dm A7 Gm Dm

The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young