Eddy Arnold – Yesterday When I Was Young chords

     Dm              GYesterday when I was young 
                      C                     Fthe taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
                    Dm                    EI teased at life as if it were a foolish game
    E7             Amthe way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame 


                      Dm                             GThe thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned 
               C                         FI always built alas on weak and shifting sand
                     Dm                            E               I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day 
   E7          Amand only now I see how the years ran away 


     Dm              G                 Yesterday when I was young 
                 C                        Fso many drinking songs were waiting to be sung, 
                   Dm                      Eso many wayward pleasures lay in store for me 
   E7               Amand so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see 


                   Dm                         GI ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out 
                   C                       FI never stopped to think what life was all about 
                Dm               Eand every conversation I can now recall 
  E7                 Am         concerned itself with me and nothing else at all 


     Dm                GYesterday the moon was blue 
                C                            Fand every crazy day brought something new to do 
               Dm                   EI used my magic age as if it were a wand 
  E7              Amand never saw the waste and emptiness beyond 


                   Dm                        GThe game of love I played with arrogance and pride 
                  C                       Fand every flame I lit too quickly quickly died
                       Dm                      EThe friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away 
  E7              Amand only I am left on stage to end the play


                 Dm                         GThere are so many songs in me that won't be sung 
                  C                      FI feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue 
                     Dm                 E     E7         Am              The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young