Yesterday When I Was Young by Roy Clark | Live on Hee Haw (1978) | Lyrics in Description Chords

[Dm] _ [A] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] Seems the love I've [Gm] known has always been the [F] most destructive kind.
[Bb] Guess that's why [Am] now [Gm] I feel [A] so old [Dm] before my time.
_ _ _ [G] Yesterday _ [Gm]
when I [C] was young, the taste of [F] life was sweet.
As rain [Bb] upon my tongue, I [Gm] teased that life as if it were a foolish game.
[A] The way the evening [Dm]
breeze may tease a candle flame.
A [Gm] thousand dreams I dreamed, splendid things [C] I planned.
I always [F] built to last on [E] weak and shifting [Bb] sand.
I live [Gm] by night and shun the naked light of [A] day.
And only now [Dm] I see how the years ran [D] away.
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[Gm] Yesterday when I [C] was young, so many [F] happy songs were waiting to [Bb] be sung.
So many [Gm] wild pleasures lay in store [A] for me.
And so much [Dm] pain my dazzled eyes refused to see.
[Gm] I ran so fast that time and youth at [C] last ran out.
I never [F] stopped to think what life was [Bb] all about.
And every [Gm] conversation I can [A] now recall concerns [Dm] itself with me and nothing else at all.
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Yesterday the moon [C] was blue.
And every [F] crazy day brought something new [Bb] to do.
I used my [Gm] magic age as if it were [A] a wand.
And never [Dm] saw the waste, the emptiness beyond.
The [Gm] game of love I played with arrogance [C] and pride.
And every plane [F] I left to [Bb] forget if we died.
The friends [Gm] I made all seemed somehow [A] drift away.
And only [Dm] I am left on stage to hear the play.
There are so [Gm] many songs in me that [C] won't be sung.
Eat the bitter [Am] taste of tears upon [Bb] my tongue.
The [Gm]
time has come for me to pay for [A] yesterday _ when [E] I _ _ [Dm] was young. _
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