Yesterday When I Was Young Dusty Springfield
Yesterday when I[Am] was y[Dm]oung, [G]
the taste of life was [C]sweet as rain upon my [F]tongue.
I teased at life as [Dm]if it were a foolish [E]game,
the way the evening [Am]breeze may tease the candle flame.
The thousand dreams I [Dm]dreamed, the splendid things I [G]planned,
I always built to [C]last on weak and shifting [F]sand.
I lived by night and [Dm]shunned the naked light of [E]day
and only now I [Am]see how the time ran away.
Yester[Dm]day when I was [G]young,
so many lovely [C]songs were waiting to be [F]sung.
So many wild [Dm]pleasures lay in store for [E]me
and so much pain my [Am]eyes refused to see.
I ran so fast that [Dm]time and youth at last ran [G]out.
I never stopped to [C]think what life was all a[F]bout.
And every conver[Dm]sation that I can now re[E]call
concerned itself with [Am]me and nothing else at all.
The game of love I [Dm]played with arrogance and [G]pride
and every flame I [C]lit too quickly, quickly [F]died.
The friends I made all [Dm]somehow seemed to slip a[E]way
and only now I'm [Am]left alone to end the play.
Oh, yester[Dm]day when I was [G]young,
so many, many [C]songs were waiting to be [F]sung.
So many wild [Dm]pleasures lay in store for [E]me
and so much pain my [Am]eyes refused to see.
There are so many [Dm]songs in me that won't be [G]sung.
I feel the bitter [C]taste of tears upon my [F]tongue.
The time has come for [Dm]me to pay for yester[E]day
when I was [Am]young.
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