{"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":2401313,"song":"Yesterday When I Was Young","artist":"Charles Aznavour","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/2401313-yesterday-when-i-was-young-chords-by-charles-aznavour/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2401313?type=chord","rating":4.91024,"votes":97,"content":"\"Yesterday When I Was Young\" (aka \"Hier Encore\")\r\nby Aznavour & Kretzmer\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Gm[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYesterday when I was young[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nThe taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Gm[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI teased at life as if it were a foolish game[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThe way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]Gm[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nI always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Gm[/ch]                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI lived by night and shunned the naked light of day[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd only now I see how the years ran away[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Bb[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYesterday, when I was young[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nSo many drinking songs were waiting to be sung[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Gm[/ch]                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo many wayward pleasures lay in store for me[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]Bb[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nI never stopped to think what life was all about[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Gm[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd every conversation I can now recall[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nConcerned itself with me, me and nothing else at all.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Gm[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYesterday the moon was blue[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nAnd every crazy day brought something new to do[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Gm[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI used my magic age as if it were a wand[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd never saw the waste and emptiness beyond.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Dm[/ch]             [ch]Gm[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe game of love I played with arrogance and pride[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nAnd every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Gm[/ch]                       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd only I am left on stage to end the play.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Bb[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThere are so many songs in me that won't be sung[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]Bb[/ch]\r\nI feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]Gm[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe time has come for me to pay for yesterday[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWhen I was...young[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]\r\nYoung[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nYoung[/tab]","plain_text":"\"Yesterday When I Was Young\" (aka \"Hier Encore\")\nby Aznavour & Kretzmer\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]","chords":["Gm","C","F","Bb","A","Dm"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"Gm":{"barres":[3],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,1,1,1],"frets":[3,5,5,3,3,3]}}}