Yesterday When I Was Young Chords by Andy Williams

[Start]

[Verse]
G7 A7                            C7
■  ■  Yesterday when I was young ■ 
                            F                       
The taste of life was sweet ■ as rain upon my tongue
Bb                                       A7  
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
                    Dm                             
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
                      Gm7    
The thousand dreams I dreamed
Dm                    C7     
The splendid things I planned
               Fmaj7
I always built alas 
   F                 Bb  
On weak and shifting sand
                 Gm                             A7 
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
               Dm                        
And only now I see how the years ran away


[Chorus]
Gm        Gm7        C7   
Yesterday when I was young
              F                        Bb  
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
                Gm7                        A7
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
                 Dm                            
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
                   Gm       Gm7               C7 
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
                   F                       Bb   
I never stopped to think what life was all about
          Gm7                    A7    
And every conversation I can now recall
                      Dm                        
Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all


[Inst]
Gm7 C7 F Bb Gm A7 Dm
■   ■  ■ ■  ■  ■  ■ 


[Verse]
Gm7                C7      
Yesterday the moon was blue
          Fmaj7                       Bb       
And every crazy day brought something new to do
          Gm                      A7    
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
          Dm                                
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond


[Chorus]
            Gm7                C7                 
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
          F                       Bbmaj7      
And every flame I lit too quickly quickly died
              Gm7                        A7        
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
         Dm                                
And only I am left on stage to end the play
                  Gm               C7           
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
           Fmaj7                 Bbmaj7        
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
             Gm7                    A7       
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday


[Bridge]
       Dm  F Dm   
When I was ■ young


[Chorus]
Gm7                  C7   
Yesterday when I was young
              F                        Bb  
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
                Gm7                        A7
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
                    Dm                         
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see


[Outro]
Gm Gm7 C7 F Bb A7 Dm
■  ■   ■  ■ ■  ■  ■ 


[End]