Charles Aznavour – Yesterday When I Was Young (Guitar)

      Gm             C
Yesterday when I was young

                      F                     Bb
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue

                       Gm                A
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game

                    Dm
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame.

                      Gm                             C
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned

                 F                         Bb
I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand

                     Gm                         A
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day

               Dm
And only now I see how the years ran away

      Bb              C
Yesterday, when I was young

                 F                        Bb
So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung

                Gm                         A
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me

                    Dm
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see

                   Bb                         C
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out

                   F                       Bb
I never stopped to think what life was all about

                Gm                 A
And every conversation I can now recall

                      Dm
Concerned itself with me, me and nothing else at all.

      Gm               C
Yesterday the moon was blue

                F                            Bb
And every crazy day brought something new to do

                Gm                  A
I used my magic age as if it were a wand

                  Dm
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond.

    Dm             Gm                        C
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride

                  F                        Bb
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died.

                       Gm                       A
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away

              Dm
And only I am left on stage to end the play.

                  Bb                        C
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung

                  F                      Bb
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue

                      Gm                  A
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday

             Dm
When I was...young

A
Young

Dm
Young