[Verso 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 



[Refrão]

       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 

( Gm  C  F  Bb ) 
( Gm  A  Dm ) 

 
[Verso 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 


[Refrão]


      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