Yesterday, When I Was Young
by Eddy Arnold · tab for chromatic harmonica
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Yes-ter-day when I was young
the taste of life was sweet
as rain up-on my tongue,
I teased at life as if
it were a fool-ish game
the way an eve-ning breeze
may tease a can-dle flame,
The thou-sand dreams I dreamed,
the splen-did things I planned
I al-ways built a-las
on weak and shift-ing sand,
I lived by night and shunned
the nak-ed light of day
and on-ly now I see
how the years ran a-way
Yes-ter-day when I was young
so man-y drink-ing songs
were wait-ing to be sung,
So ma-ny way-ward pleas-ures
lay in store for me
and so much pain my daz-zled
eyes re-fused to see,
I ran so fast that time
and youth at last ran out
I nev-er stopped to think
what life was all a-bout,
and ev-'ry con-ver-sa-tion
I can now re-call
con-cerned it-self with me,
and noth-ing else at all.
There are so ma-ny songs
in me that won't be sung
I feel the bit-ter taste
of tears up-on my tongue
the time has come for me
to pay for yes-ter-day
When I was young.