Yesterday When I Was Young by Roy Clark | Live on Hee Haw (1978) | Lyrics in Description

Roy Clark performs, "Yesterday When I Was Young" on Hee Haw 10th Anniversary Celebration which aired October 22, 1978.

Lyrics:
Yesterday, When I Was Young lyrics
Seems the love I've known has always been
The most destructive kind
Yes, that's why now I feel so old
Before my time.

Yesterday when I was young
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue.
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game,
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame.
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
I'd always built to last on weak and shifting sand.
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day
And only now I see how the years ran away.

Yesterday when I was young
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung,
So many wild 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.

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 too quickly, quickly died.
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
And only I am left on 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
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The Hee Haw NBC Special: The Big Event: "Hee Haw 10th Anniversary Celebration."
Two-hour NBC special hosted by Roy Clark and Buck Owens. Guests include Chet Atkins, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Larry Gatlin, Crystal Gayle, Tom T. Hall, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrell, Ronnie Milsap, Charley Pride, Kenny Rogers, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Mel Tillis, Conway Twitty, and Tammy Wynette.
Music: Chet Atkins - "Lover Come Back to Me." Roy Clark - "Yesterday When I Was Young" Tennessee Ernie Ford - "Fast Train to Georgia" Tom T. Hall - "What Have You Got to Lose" Larry Gatlin - "I've Done Enough Dying Today" Barbara Mandrell – "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed." Barbara Mandrell and Roy Clark - "Old Rattler" Ronnie Milsap - "Let's Take the Long Way Around the World" Kenny Price - "Let's Truck Together" Charley Pride - "Burgers and Fries" Kenny Rogers - "Lucille" and "The Gambler" Roy Rogers & Dale Evans – Country Gospel medley Mel Tillis - "Westbound Trains" Conway Twitty - "You Had Taken Me That High" Tammy Wynette - "Womanhood"

More about this song:
Roy's version of "Yesterday When I Was Young," became his biggest hit up to that time on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, peaking at No. 9 in August 1969, and indeed, it became his only top 40 pop hit, peaking at No. 19. He performed the song at Mickey Mantle's funeral in 1995, at Mantle's personal request. In Canada, the song reached number seven on the pop chart, number two on the country chart, and number one AC.

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