YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG - Dm - Roy Clark - Kar

[00:04.41] It seems the love I've known

[00:06.66] Has always been the most destructive kind

[00:10.15] I guess that's why now

[00:12.90] I feel so old

[00:14.91] Before my time

[00:21.40] Yesterday when I was young

[00:26.40] The taste of life was sweet

[00:28.90] As rain upon my tongue

[00:31.65] I teased at life as if

[00:34.40] It were a foolish game

[00:37.15] The way the evening breeze

[00:39.90] May tease a candle flame

[00:42.66] The thousand dreams I dreamed

[00:45.40] The splendid things I planned

[00:48.16] I always built to last

[00:50.91] On weak and shifting sand

[00:53.66] I lived by night and shunned

[00:56.15] The naked light of the day

[00:58.66] And only now I see

[01:01.41] How the years ran away

[01:04.41] Yesterday when I was young

[01:09.41] So many happy songs

[01:12.40] Were waiting to be sung

[01:14.91] So many wild pleasures

[01:17.90] Lay in store for me

[01:20.41] And so much pain my dazzled eyes

[01:23.65] Refused to see

[01:25.65] I ran so fast that time

[01:28.41] And youth at last ran out

[01:31.15] I never stopped to think

[01:33.90] What life was all about

[01:36.65] And every conversation

[01:39.65] I can now recall

[01:42.15] Concerned itself with me

[01:44.65] And nothing else at all

[01:47.65] INSTRUMENTAL

[02:09.41] Yesterday the moon was blue

[02:14.66] And every crazy day

[02:17.16] Brought something new to do

[02:19.91] I used my magic age

[02:22.66] As if it were a wand

[02:25.41] And never saw the waste

[02:28.16] And emptiness beyond

[02:30.90] The game of love I played

[02:33.41] With arrogance and pride

[02:36.40] And every flame I lit

[02:38.91] Too quickly, quickly died

[02:41.90] The friends I made all seemed

[02:44.40] Somehow to drift away

[02:47.15] And only I am left

[02:49.65] On stage to end the play

[02:52.65] There are so many songs

[02:55.15] In me that won't be sung

[02:57.90] I feel the bitter taste

[03:00.65] Of tears upon my tongue

[03:03.65] The time has come for me

[03:06.15] To pay for yesterday

[03:11.40] When I was young