{"id":1158,"date":"2021-05-10T06:19:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:17:37","slug":"yesterday-when-i-was-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/yesterday-when-i-was-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday When I was Young"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First two notes – playing Am chord 3rd string 2x, then 4th string<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It seems the love I’ve known has always been the most destructive kind.\u00a0 I guess that’s why now I feel so old before my time<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }\r\n<\/span>Yester- [Am] -day when I was [D] young \r\n<\/span><\/span>the taste of life was [G] sweet as rain upon my [C] tongue\r\n<\/span><\/span>I teased at life as [Am] if it were a foolish [B] game\r\n<\/span><\/span>the [B7] way the evening [Em] breeze may tease a candle flame \r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n[Verse]\r\n<\/span>The thousand dreams I [Am] had, the splendid things I [D] planned \r\n<\/span><\/span>I always built [G] alas on weak and shifting [C] sand\r\n<\/span><\/span>I lived by night and [Am] shunned the naked light of the [B] day \r\n<\/span><\/span>and [B7] only now I [Em] see how the years ran away \r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n<\/span>Yester- [Am] -day when I was [D] young \r\n<\/span><\/span>so many drinking [G] songs were waiting to be [C] sung, \r\n<\/span><\/span>so many wayward [Am] pleasures lay in store for [B] me \r\n<\/span><\/span>and [B7] so much pain my [Em] dazzled eyes refused to see \r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n[Verse]\r\n<\/span>I ran so fast that [Am] time and youth at last ran [D] out \r\n<\/span><\/span>I never stopped to [G] think what life was all [C] about \r\n<\/span><\/span>and every conver- [Am] -sation I can now [B] recall \r\n<\/span><\/span>[B7] concerned itself with [Em] me and nothing else at all \r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n<\/span>Yester- [Am] -day the moon was [D] blue \r\n<\/span><\/span>and every crazy [G] day brought something new to [C] do \r\n<\/span><\/span>I used my magic [Am] age as if it were a [B] wand \r\n<\/span><\/span>and [B7] never saw the [Em] waste and emptiness beyond \r\n<\/span><\/span>\r\nThe game of love I [Am] played with arrogance and [D] pride \r\n<\/span><\/span>and every flame I [G] lit too quickly quickly [C] died\r\n<\/span><\/span>The friends I made all [Am] seemed somehow to drift [B] away \r\n<\/span><\/span>and [B7] only I am [Em] left on stage to end the play\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nThere are so many [Am] songs in me that won't be [D] sung \r\n<\/span><\/span>I feel the bitter [G] taste of tears upon my [C] tongue \r\n<\/span><\/span>The time has come for [Am] me to pay \r\nfor [B] yester- [B7] -day when I was [Em] young\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SHEET MUSIC ::: First two notes – playing Am chord 3rd string 2x, then 4th string It seems the love I’ve known has always been the most destructive kind.\u00a0 I guess that’s why now I feel so old before my time { CHORUS } Yester- [Am] -day when I was … CLICK TO VIEW SONGYesterday When I was Young<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,116,117,131,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-power-outage","category-songpics-sheetmusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30286,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/30286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}