Yesterday When I Was Young Chords by Charles Aznavour

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[Cm] _ _ [E] _ [D] _ [A] _ [B] _ [Cm] _ _
[B] _ [Db] _ _ [Gm] _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Fm] [Ab] Yesterday, _ when I was young, the taste of [Eb] life was sweet as rain upon my tongue.
I [Fm] teased at life as if [Dm] it were a foolish game.
[Fm] The [G] way the evening [Cm] breeze [A] may tease a [Cm] candle flame,
the thousand [Gb] dreams [A] I [Fm] dream,
the splendid things I [Ab] planned,
[G] I always [Bb] built, [Eb] alas, on weak and shifting [Ab] sand.
I lived by night [Fm] and shunned the naked light of [G] day,
and only now I see [Cm] how the years ran away.
[D] _ [G] [Dbm] Yesterday, [Fm] _ when I was [C] young,
[Gm] so [Bb] many drinking [Eb] songs were waiting [Ab] beside,
so many well-wet pleasures [D] they'd store.
For me, [G]
so much pain [F] my dazzled [D] eyes [Cm] refused to see.
[C] I ran so fast, that [Fm] time and youth at last ran [E] out.
[Bb] I never stopped to think what [Eb] life, yes, life was all about.
[D]
[Ab] And every conversation [D] [G] I can [Fm] now [Gbm] recall [G] concerned itself with me, [Cm] me, [Fm] nothing [Bm] else at [Cm] all.
[Gm] _ _ [Fm] Yesterday, the moon was [Bb] blue, and every [Eb] crazy day brought something new to [Ab] do.
I used my magic [Fm] age as if it were a [Bb] wand, [G]
and never saw the [Cm] waste, the emptiness beyond.
[C] A [Cm] game [G] of [A] love I [Fm] played with arrogance and [Ab] pride,
and [Gm] every flame [Gb] I lit [Eb] too quickly, quickly died.
[Ab]
The friends I [Fm] belonged seemed somehow [C] drift away,
[G] _
and only I am left [Cm] on stage to end the play.
There are so [Ab] many songs in [Cm] me that won't [F] be sung.
[Gm] I [B] feel the [Cm] bitter taste of [B] tears [Eb] upon [F] my tongue.
_ _ [Cm] _ The time has come for me to pay for _ _ yesterday, _
when I was _ _ _ young.
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