YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG (as recorded by Roy Clark) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Transcribed by Guitar Player Extraordinaire, Tim Stoll (of Lockport, New York) http://www.angelfire.com/music2/chords/index.html Note-for-note Guitar solo tab at bottom of this page! --------------------------------------------------------------------- ...........CHORDS: ...........EADGBE ...........--------- F#m....-244222- B.........-x24442- E.........-022100- Esus4..-022200- G#7....-464544- C#m....-x46654- C#m9..-x46644- Emaj7.-022144- Amaj7.-x02224- -------------------------------------------------- Intro: ----------------------F#m It seems the love I've known... -----------B has always been... ---------------------E (Esus4) E the most destructive kind. -------------------F#m I guess that's why now... ------------G#7 I've feel so old... -----------C#m (C#m9) C#m Before my time. ---------------------------------------------- VERSE: -----------F#m---------------B Yes - ter - day___when I was young, ---------------------Emaj7-----------------Amaj7 the taste of life was sweet as rain up-on my tongue. -----------F#m---------------------G#7 I teased at life as if it were a fool-ish game. ----------------------C#m The way the eve-ning breeze may tease a can-dle flame. (continue progression from verse above throughout song) The thousand dreams I dreamed; the splendid things I planned. I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand. I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day, and only now I see how the years ran away. Yesterday when I was young, so many drinking songs were waiting to be sung. So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me, and so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see. I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out. I never stopped to think what life was all about, and every conversation I can now recall, concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all. *********************** (Guitar solo) See note-for-note tab below! *********************** Yesterday the moon was blue, and every crazy day brought something new to do. I used my magic age as if it were a wand, and never saw the waste and emptiness beyond. The game of love I played with arrogance and pride, and every flame I lit to quickly quickly die. The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away, and only I am left on the stage to end the play. There are so many songs in me that won't be sung. I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue. The time has come for me to pay for Yesterday... When I Was Young. Note-for-note Guitar solo tab: E-----------------------------4----5-------------5--4--5~9---7----------------| B-------------4----5----7-----------------------------------------------------| G--------6--------------------------------------------------------------------| D---6-------------------------------------------------------------------------| A-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| E---7----5----4----------4------------------4---------4----7----5---------------| B-------------------7-----------------------------7-----------------------------| G-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| D-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| A-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| E---5-(h)7-(p)5----4-----------------------------------------5----4-------------| B-----------------------7----6----7------------7---6---7------------------------| G-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| D-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| A-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| E---4-(h)5-(p)4-----------------------------------------------------------------| B------------------7----5----4---------------------4-(h)5--4--------------------| G----------------------------------6------------6-----------------6---5---6~----| D-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| A-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
