Roy Clark - Yesterday when i was young

^EmIt seems the love I've known ^A7 Has always been ^Dthe most destructive ki^Gnd ^EmI guess that's why now ^F#7I feel so old ^BmBefore my time

Yeste^Emrday when I was ^A7young the taste of life was ^Dsweet as rain upon my ^Gtongue I teased at life as ^Emif it were a foolish g^F#7ame the way the evening ^Bmbreeze may tease a candle flame

The thousand dreams I ^Emdreamed, the splendid things I ^A7planned I always built ^Dto last on weak and shifting ^Gsand I lived by night and ^Emshunned the naked light of the^F#7 day and only now I ^Bmsee how the years ran away

Yeste^Emrday when I was ^A7young so many happy ^Dsongs were waiting to be s^Gung, so many wild ple^Emasures lay in store for ^F#7me and so much pain ^Bmmy dazzled eyes refused to see

I ran so fast that ^Emtime and youth at last ran ^A7out I never stopped to ^Dthink what life was all ^Gabout and every conver^Emsation I can now ^F#7recall concerned itself with ^Bmme and nothing else at all

Yeste^Emrday the moon was ^A7blue and every crazy ^Dday brought something new to ^Gdo I used my magic^Em age as if it were a ^F#7wand and never saw the w^Bmaste and emptiness beyond

The game of love I ^Emplayed with arrogance and ^A7pride and every flame I ^Dlit too quickly quickly ^Gdied The friends I made all ^Emseemed somehow to drift ^F#7away and only I am left ^Bmon stage to end the play

There are so many^Em songs in me that won't be ^A7sung I feel the bitter ^Dtaste of tears upon my ^Gtongue The time has come for^Em me to pay for yest^F#7erday when I was yo^Bmung