Chords for Mel Torme - Yesterday When I Was Young

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_ [Am] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
Wherever [G] I go they call me by name And that in itself is some kind of fame _
I'm good for a laugh and a drink and a [Gm] game Wherever I [Db] go they're glad that I came
The life that I [D] live I like it just [Gm] fine _ There's [Eb] music and romance and _ glamour and
[Gbm] _ wine _ And [B] beautiful _ [E] girls [Gm] and some of [A] them mine _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] But often my [Bb]
eyes _ _ _ see a [Gm] different _
_ _ _ [A] _ shine
_ [Db] _
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_ Yesterday when I was [C]
young _ _ The taste of [F] life was sweet _ _ as [D] rain upon [Bb] my
_ tongue _ [Bb] I teased at life [C] as if it were _ [E] a foolish [A] _ game
_ The way the evening _ [E] _ breeze made tease a candle [C] _ flame
[A] The thousand dreams [Gm] I _ _ dreamed [Gm] The splendid things [C] I _ planned
_ [A] I always built, alas, _ [F] on weakened, shifting _ _ [Bb]
sand
I lived by [E] night and _ shunned the naked light of [A] day
_ _ _ And only now [Dm] I see how [Gm] the _ years ran [Dm]
away
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_ _ Yesterday _ when I _
[Cm] was _ _ young
[Gm] So many [Am] drinking _ _ songs were waiting [Bbm] to be sung
So many _ [Gm] wayward pleasures _ [Bb] _ lay in store for [A] _ me
[Ebm] So much [Eb] pain [Dm] my dazzled _ [Gm] eyes refused to [Dm] see
I ran so fast [Bb] the _ time _ and youth [Cm] at last ran _ out
I [Am] never stopped to think what life was all [Bbm] _ about _
And every _ [Gm] _ conversation _ _ _ I [A] can now recall
_ [Eb] _
Concerned itself [Dm] with me, _ [Gm] _
_ nothing [Dm] else at _ _ all
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[C] _ _ _ [Gm] _ [Ebm] _ _ [A] _ _
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Yesterday _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
the moon [Gb] was blue
[Gb] _
_ And [F] every crazy day _ brought [Eb] something new to do
I used my [E] magic age as if it were a [A] _ wand _
And [A] never [Dm] saw the waste [G] and [Dm] emptiness _ beyond
_ The game of life I [Gm] _ played _ [C]
with arrogance and _ pride
[C]
And every [F] flame I lit [Gm] too quickly, [F] _ [Bbm] quickly _ died
[Bb]
The friends I [E] made all seemed somehow to drift [Eb] away _ _
And only I [Dm] am left on stage to end the play
_ There are so [Gm] many songs in me that won't be [D] sung
I feel the bitter [Am] note of tears upon my [G] tongue
The time [Gm] has come [E] for me _ _
Before _ [Am] _ _ _ _ yesterday
[A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
When I _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] was young
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