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Tabbed by: Mike Nachaj :: mike@mikemusicbox.com

Song: Yesterday When I Was Young (Hier encore)
By:   Charles Aznavour

[intro:] |Fm7  |Bb7   |Ebmaj7  |Dm7b5  G7  |

[verse: 1]
     |Fm              |Bb7
Yesterday__ when I was young
                     |Ebmaj7                |Ab
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
                    |Dm7b5               |G7
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
                    |Cm                      |
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame

[verse: 2]
                        |Fm                          |Bb7
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
                 |Ebmaj7                   |Ab
I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand
                     |Dm7b5                     |G7
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
               |Cm                    |      
And only now I see how the years ran away
 
[verse: 3]
      |Fm             |Bb7
Yesterday, when I was young
                 |Ebmaj7                  |Abmaj7
So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung
                |Fm                        |G7  G7-9
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
                    |Cm                     |
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see

[verse: 4]
                   |Fm7                       |Bb7
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
                   |Ebmaj7                 |Abmaj7
I never stopped to think what life was all about
               |Fm                 |G7  G7-9
And every conversation I can now recall
                      |Cm                    |
Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all
 
[verse: 5]
     |Fm               |Bb7
Yesterday the moon was blue
                |Ebmaj7                      |Ab
And every crazy day brought something new to do
                |Dm7b5              |G7
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
                  |Cm                   |
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond

[verse: 6] 
                   |Fm                       |Bb7
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
                  |Ebmaj7                  |Ab
And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died
                       |Dm7b5                  |G7
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
              |Cm                     |                 
And only I am left on stage to end the play
 
 
[coda:]
                 |Fm                       |G7
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
                  |Cm                    |Fm
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
                     |Dm7b5            |Cm
The time has come for me___ to pay for yesterday
|G7            |Cm      |Fm    |G7         |Cm
 When I   was  young__          young       young



chords:

Ab      466544
Bb      113331  or 688766
Bb7     113131  or 686766
Cm      335543
Dm7b5   x5656x 
Ebmaj7  668786
Fm      133111
G       320003  or 355433
G7      320001  or 353433