Yesterday, When I Was Young Chords

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Yesterday, When I Was Young by Julio Iglesias is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of Dm. It uses the chords Dm7, G7, Cm7, Fm7, Fm, E7, Am, E, A7 and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Yesterday, When I Was Young:Julio Iglesias. 
Album - Starry Night - 1990. 

#1. 
      Dm7             G7 
Yesterday, when I was young,  
                      Cm7                    Fm7 
the taste of life was sweet, as rain upon my tongue, 
                     Fm                   E7 
I teased at life, as if it were a foolish game,  
                    Am         E             A7 
the way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame. 

#2. 
                      Dm7                            G7 
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned,  
                Cm7                        Fm7 
I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand,  
                      Fm                         E7 
I lived by night, and shunned the naked light of day,  
                Am           E        A7 
and only now, I see, how the years ran away. 

#3. 
      Dm7             G7 
Yesterday, when I was young,  
              Cm7                      Fm7
so many happy songs were waiting to be sung,  
                Dm7                        E7 
so many wayward pleasures lay in store for me,  
                     Am           E         A7 
and so much pain, my dazzled eyes refused to see. 
                   Dm7                         G7 
I ran so fast that time, and youth at last ran out,  
                   Cm7                       FM7 
I never stopped to think, what life, was all about,  
                Dm7                 E7 
and every conversation, I can now recall, 
                      Am      E              A7 
concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all. 

#4. 
      Dm7               G7 
Yesterday, the moon was blue,  
                Cm7                           Fm7 
and every crazy day, brought something new to do,  
                Fm                   E7 
I used my magic age, as if it were a wand,  
                  Am         E+          A7 
and never saw the waste, and emptiness beyond. 
                   Dm7                        G7 
The game of love I played, with arrogance and pride, 
                  Cm7                       FM7 
And every flame I lit, too quickly, quickly died, 
                        Fm                        E7 
the friends I made, all seemed, somehow, to drift away,  
              Am       E+                A7 
and only I am left, on stage, to end the play. 

#5. 
                  Dm7                        G7 
There are so many songs in me, that won't be sung, 
                  Cm7                     FM7 
I feel the bitter taste, of tears upon my tongue, 
                      Dm7                 E7 
the time has come for me to pay for yesterday.. 
           Am    Dm Am 
when I was young. 



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