Yesterday When I Was Young(Chords)

	        verse 1 

      Gm              C 
Yesterday, when I was young 
                      F 
The taste of life was sweet 
                  Bb 
Like rain upon my tongue 
                 Gm     
I teased at life as if 
                  A 
It were a foolish game 
                   Dm 
The way an evening breeze 

would tease a candle flame 
                       Gm                     
The thousand dreams I dreamed 
                      C 
The splendid things I planned 
                   F 
I always built to last 
                     Bb 
On weak and shifting sand 
                    Gm 
I lived by night and shunned 
                   A 
The naked light of day 
               Dm 
And only now I see 

How the years have run away 


       Bb              C 
Yesterday, when I was young 
                   F 
There were so many songs 
                  Bb 
That waited to be sung 
             Gm 
so many wild pleasures 
                      A 
that Lay in store for me 

And so much pain 
   Dm 
My dazzled eyes refused to see 
                   Bb 
I ran so fast that time 
                      C 
And youth at last ran out 
                       F 
And I never stopped to think 
                   Bb 
What life was all about 
              Gm 
And every conversation 
           A 
That I can recall 
                      Dm 
Concerned itself with me 

And nothing else at all
 

Riff Gm C  F  Bb Gm  A  Dm 


verse 2 

      Gm                C 
Yesterday, the moon was blue 
                 F 
And every crazy day 
                         Bb 
Brought something new to do 
                    Gm 
And I used my magic age 
                A 
As if it were a wand 
                   Dm 
And never saw the waste 
     Dm 
And emptiness beyond 
    Dm              Gm 
The game of love I played 
                   C 
With arrogance and pride 
                   F 
And every flame I lit 
                    Bb 
so quickly, quickly died 
                       Gm 
The friends I made all seemed 
                  A 
Somehow to drift away 
               Dm 
And only I am left 

On stage to end the play 


      Bb              C 
Yesterday when I was young 
                   F 
There were so many songs 
                  Bb 
That waited to be sung 
             Gm 
so many wild pleasures 
                 A 
Lay in store for me 

And so much pain 
   Dm 
My dazzled eyes refused to see 
                  Bb 
There are so many songs in me 
              C 
That won't be sung 
                        F 
cause I feel the bitter taste 
                 Bb 
Of tears upon my tongue 
                          Gm 
and The time has come for me 
                 A 
To pay for yesterday 
            Dm 
When I was young 

	        

Written by Charles Aznavour/Herbert Kretzmer