Yesterday When I Was Young chords by Blossom Dearie

Am7      D7
Yesterday when I was young
            G7M         C7M
The taste of love was sweet as rain upon my tongue
          F#m7         B7
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
           Em     Bm       E7
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
            Am7               D7
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
         G7M            C7M
I always built to last on weak and shifting sand
           F#m7           B7
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
        Em      Bm    E7
And only now I see how the years ran away
    Am7      D7
Yesterday when I was young
       G7M           C7M
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung
        Am7            B7
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
          Em       Bm    E7
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
          Am7              D7
I ran so fast that time and youth, at last, ran out
           G7M           C7M
I never stopped to think what life was all about
        Am7         B7
And ev'ry conversation I can now recall
           Em   Bm        E7
Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all
   Am7        D7
Yesterday the moon was blue
         G7M             C7M
And ev'ry crazy day brought something new to do
        F#m7         B7
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
         Em     Bm     E7
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
          Am7            D7
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
     G7M   C7M
And ev'ry flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
            F#m7          B7
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
        Em    Bm        E7
And only I am left on stage to end the play
          Am7           D7
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
           G7M           C7M
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
             Am7       B7
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday
     Em  Am  Em
When I was young.