{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2766754,"song":"Yesterday When I Was Young","artist":"Roy Clark","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11632171-yesterday-when-i-was-young-chords-by-roy-clark/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2766754?type=chord","rating":4.78225,"votes":203,"content":"[INTRO]\r\n\r\n[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F#7[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nIt seems the love I've known[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHas always been the most destructive kind[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI guess that's why now[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#7[/ch]\r\nI feel so old[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBefore my time[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nYesterday when I was young[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nthe taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]Em[/ch]                    [ch]F#7[/ch]\r\nI teased at life as if it were a foolish game[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nthe way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nThe thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI always built to last on weak and shifting sand[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]F#7[/ch]\r\nI lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nand only now I see how the years ran away[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nYesterday when I was young[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nso many happy songs were waiting to be sung,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Em[/ch]                      [ch]F#7[/ch]\r\nso many wild pleasures lay in store for me[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nand so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nI ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI never stopped to think what life was all about[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]F#7[/ch]\r\nand every conversation I can now recall[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nconcerned itself with me and nothing else at all[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental Break]\r\n[ch]Em[/ch] [ch]A7[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]F#7[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nYesterday the moon was blue[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand every crazy day brought something new to do[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Em[/ch]                   [ch]F#7[/ch]\r\nI used my magic age as if it were a wand[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nand never saw the waste and emptiness beyond[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                   [ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nThe game of love I played with arrogance and pride[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]D[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand every flame I lit too quickly quickly died[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Em[/ch]                      [ch]F#7[/ch]\r\nThe friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nand only I am left on stage to end the play[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nThere are so many songs in me that won't be sung[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Em[/ch]                 [ch]F#7[/ch]                [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young[/tab]","plain_text":"[INTRO]\n\nEm F#7 Bm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental Break]\nEm A7 D G Em F#7 Bm\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["Em","F#7","Bm","A7","D","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}