[Primeira Parte]

    Gm              C 
Yesterday, when I was young
                      F 
The taste of life was sweet
                  Bb 
Like rain upon my tongue
                 Gm     
I teased at life as if
                  A 
It were a foolish game
                   Dm 
The way an evening breeze

Would tease a candle flame
                       Gm
The thousand dreams I dreamed
                      C 
The splendid things I planned
                   F 
I always built to last
                     Bb 
On weak and shifting sand
                    Gm 
I lived by night and shunned
                   A 
The naked light of day
               Dm 
And only now I see

How the years have run away

[Refrão]

       Bb              C 
Yesterday, when I was young
                   F 
There were so many songs
                  Bb 
That waited to be sung
             Gm 
So many wild pleasures
                      A 
That Lay in store for me

And so much pain
   Dm 
My dazzled eyes refused to see
                   Bb 
I ran so fast that time
                      C 
And youth at last ran out
                       F 
And I never stopped to think
                   Bb 
What life was all about
              Gm 
And every conversation
           A 
That I can recall
                      Dm 
Concerned itself with me

And nothing else at all

( Gm  C  F  Bb )
( Gm  A  Dm )

[Segunda Parte]

      Gm                C 
Yesterday, the moon was blue
                 F 
And every crazy day
                         Bb 
Brought something new to do
                    Gm 
And I used my magic age
                A 
As if it were a wand
                   Dm 
And never saw the waste
     Dm 
And emptiness beyond
    Dm              Gm 
The game of love I played
                   C 
With arrogance and pride
                   F 
And every flame I lit
                    Bb 
So quickly, quickly died
                       Gm 
The friends I made all seemed
                  A 
Somehow to drift away
               Dm 
And only I am left

On stage to end the play

[Refrão]

      Bb              C 
Yesterday when I was young
                   F 
There were so many songs
                  Bb 
That waited to be sung
             Gm 
So many wild pleasures
                 A 
Lay in store for me

And so much pain
   Dm 
My dazzled eyes refused to see
                  Bb 
There are so many songs in me
              C 
That won't be sung
                        F 
Cause I feel the bitter taste
                 Bb 
Of tears upon my tongue
                          Gm 
And The time has come for me
                 A 
To pay for yesterday
            Dm 
When I was young