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Yesterday When I Was Young - Glen Campbell

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

Chorus 1
       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

 

Chorus 2

 

      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