Roy Clark - Yesterday When I Was Young (Lyrics)
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- Yesterday When I Was Young - Song by Roy Clark
About the singer:
Roy Linwood Clark (April 15, 1933 - November15, 2018) was an American singer and musician. He is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show from 1969 - 1997. Roy Clark was an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and in helping popularize the genre.
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LYRICS:
It seems the love I've known has always been
The most destructive kind
I guess 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 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 atlast 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 the 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
Lyrics source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Herbert kretzmer/Charles Aznavour
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I think Roy's version of this song is the best...
For sure. Me too. Clarks version is the best of the best no question. Glad you feel the same. RIP Roy.
@moodmuzik I met him in Tulsa years ago...nice man
I like Roy Clark's version the best, as well. It's the only version I will listen to ❤
These words are so true and profound. Young men and women, don't let this song be your alma mater. Treat others with mercy and compassion. People may not remember your name, but they will always remember how you made them feel. So have no regrets.
Well said….😞
I'm now 75 years old and I was a musician ... I truly love this song. But the reality of the lyric is shocking...When I reflect upon my life I realize that there hundreds of people that I need to apologize to. But, that time has passed and for that I am truly sorry.
Hi Rick, 🤗 Trust me, you will have your chance. ✨😌✨
And there are probably hundreds that need to apologize to you..... It all evens out
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Amen to that I know exactly what you mean
Turned 68 recently and this song means more now than ever before...😢
I try to tell my daughter, about how fast time will go by, and she doesn't believe me. She is still in that stage we all went thru where old age is something that is not going to happen to her. She will find out, as I did. I look back at all the dreams I had and things I wanted to do, and I aways said tomorrow.....tomorrow.....now tomorrow has come and gone and I missed it. All the years I waited for my life to start, and meanwhile it was passing me by.
Baseball Hall-of Famer was good friends with Roy Clark. Before Mickey died he told Roy that this song was written about himself. He then asked Clark to play this song at his funeral, which Clark did.
Outhouse mouse: like the comment!.According to Roy Clark,Mickey Mantle would beg Roy to sing Yesterday and end up in tear’s. Mickey’s probably begging Roy now!.Thanks
No one does it like Roy Clark, he'll make you think and cry ...
that's a reflection of life........., and if you don't really think so.......your still young !!!!
everyone always say that " if they could change the things they have done in the past"
now is the time to make the changes .....not later
I am 79 and god has been kind to me. I have lived my life as a boat floating down the river destined to meet the ocean. It is natural, and god’s will that this be so. I feel fulfilled and satisfied. I feel grateful to all my friends, family, associates who have made my life’s journey pleasurable. May thy will be done.
But God is spelled with a capitol G.
Beautiful song! Anyone that gets older will relate to this song.
Whoever said " Youth is wasted on the young" sure got it right
and today is my birthday😂❤im 17years old and i listen to the song😭😭💔
Now at the age of 72, sadly this song is who I was, and I do have so many regrets on what I have done to so many beautiful ladies....DAMN!! I was such a fool and thought that everything was about me and only me, and it only ended up with sorrow and grief that I deserved. I can only look back now and hope for forgiveness for I was the biggest fool ever for my ignorance. This song will play at my funeral, and those who listen intently, I hope that they will get the message. May God forgive me and may they forgive me.
God has forgiven you in Christ Jesus already...the question really is...do you believe that you have been forgiven? If you do, praise the Lord
I hear the tears and pain in his voice. This takes me back to my wasted childhood. As a child I still had hope for the future because there's always hope. At 69 I look back at the nightmare that was my life. I've changed through the years but my history is part of whom I am today. Sadness follows me from day to day. I never knew happiness as a child. It pollutes my every day. I lost my precious sis eight months ago and now, it's part of my sadness. She went through the same nightmare but for her it was so much worse. She told me, look what life has done to me and before she passed, her last words to me was... I miss you and I love you. I have so much grief living in my heart. I live day by day still with hope for the time I have left that I can find answers as to why, so that I can find peace before it's my time. This song has opened my eyes. So haunting so beautiful and so true
Blessings Elena!
Elena, I truly pray you can find joy in Jesus. It is part of your name. We all have regrets and sorrows but, thank God, this life is temporary. Blessings
Regrets are such a heavy burden to carry through the years of our lives. Yet only until we see ourselves as Worthy, and as Children of The Creator, will we be able to cast off that crushing burden, and realize that at that moment, in the truest sense, we are FREE.
Elena, the answers you seek can be obtained. This earth was created for God's spirit children to gain a physical body and be exposed to good and evil. To give us the opportunity to make choices and hopefully choose the good, and thereby experience joy and happiness. So why do bad things happen to the innocent? Short answer is to give us experience, knowledge and the opportunity grow and develop to be more than we are. You can be healed of your sorrows and grief and know that you truly are a daughter of a loving God who knows you and will help you. Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Savior suffered the pains of all humanity and suffered a cruel, unjust death, so that He can forgive our sins and we can be healed or made whole from our afflictions. I testify to you that my words are true through the power of the Holy Ghost and my own experiences during my life..
You can find the truth for yourself. If you pray with a sincere heart and real intent. He will send you His messengers to show you the way to healing and happiness. I pray you may seek for the blessings of the Lord. You can obtain!
There is still time,god hears our prayers…your life has been a blessing to have lived this long…I’ve lost so many much younger than you…I’m 64 and I’m grateful🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻.
Life is to Love deeply & sincerely. Give your best to the ones you love eg patience, forgiveness, laughter & joy as we are all imperfect pilgrims. Pray for God's mercy, love & goodness.
I love this song 🎵 I love the way Roy sings but glen Campbell does a very good job as well.
Life is short listen to the words young people.
If I could give it ten thumbs up, I would - but then I'd be a marvel of biology! RIP, Roy!
Such beautiful, bittersweet lyrics. At 61, this song has so much more meaning than when I first heard it in the 70’s. Time just flies; use the years wisely.
I felt every bit of this song. A life full of selfishness based on only me and what I could get out of life now has caught up to me in my years. Even the times I felt I was giving it all, it was still all for me. And I feel sad and hurt for the ones whom I have passed through their lives just to leave them empty. God Please forgive me ✝️
"To err is human, to forgive, divine. " - Alexander Pope. My husbands' biggest struggle was learning to forgive himself, as God has forgiven him.
I love this version most ❤
At 57 years old and I hear this beautiful song and I can't help getting emotional 😭 every single time I hear this beautiful song by the greatest country western singer the Immortal Mr. Roy Clark. R. I. P. Roy Clark.
Coincidentally Aznavour and Clark died within months of one another. Both had a special way of delivering this song (its sentiment) above all others. R.I.P., Gentlemen.
l love this song .so touching and meamingful..
I heard this song many years ago and vowed to myself I'd never have cause to sing its theme. Now I'm an old man and I have a few regrets, but, happily, none of the ones in the song.
I'm at my 60's.... reminiscing those younger days in my life seems full of regrets but life must go on....
Now that many of us (of a certain age) now KNOW BETTER, it should be easier to DO BETTER.
I remember Roy getting up at Mick's funeral, which was telivised in NY, and crying while singing this song. It think in sums up Mick's life pretty profoundly. I remember crying myself for the loss of a legend.
Mick?
This was written by a French man, Charles Aznavour. The words have been slightly changed, but only slightly, Still a beautiful song of true regret !!
very touching
What a very sad, but shockingly true song. I just love it and I see my own life in the words of the song.
I know that this is the song that I want played at my wake when I pass away. It fits me in each and every way. Damn not proud of it either. What a great song for those of us who couldn't appreciate what we had and could have had. At my age now it's a rude awakening.
Pay for yesterday.... I wish I could tell every person below 30. Bible, family, friends, quality time with all and then the rest IF even then.
The saddest part of life is when you get old alone. Remembering your happy days that seemed last forever wasting your time, money,relationships until you realized that you are already old no friends and family to be with 😥
Remember that you always have a friend in Jesus.
Beautiful wise words indeed❤️
One of my very all time songs !! I taught school for 9 years; would give this song
an A+ !!
So True.
Youth is wasted on the young....Mickey Mantle
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.😥😥
To all my loving [Family; Yesterday when I was Young] by Roy Clark
BRAVO!!
70 years old my most favourite song
I’ve heard this song dozens of times when I was younger…now I’m 64 yrs old ,how profoundly sad this song is as life passes in the blink of an eye…it hurts my heart listening to it now knowing time is very short.😢
Jedna od Najdražih Pijesama, Moje kolekcije:
the time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young 💔
I love this song ❣️
I love this song but I realize that it fits everyone to one degree or another. I lived a good life and served others. It's not my song but a good lament.
Just so sad and beautiful. I cry every time. This would make a good theme song to the film Dorian Gray.
No need to be negative thinking of getting old. All individual life is a continuation trip, either you believe or not, that’s the reality. When one finish term in this dimensional world, you move on to the next. As you get older, you should be more happier because you be embracing the next beautiful world. We are all travellers in this vast universe, move from one world to the next.
Each of us has two real bodies, physical body and spiritual soul body, both are all combined of energy particle, real existence. Physical body particles is large only can exists in the current world, but spiritual body particles is much, much smaller which is capable transient from one dimensional world to another. Spiritual body is the main, physical body is second, just like a shelter.
So, you get it? Life will never end, just keep on moving of one world after another. BE HAPPY, we are all travelers.
You sum up life beautifully..
@@janicelambright5256 With understanding of spiritual and physical bodies energy existence, our common practice of preying in church or preying during harsh moment, this action actually is transmitting your mind spirit energy to other dimensional world that other being there whom receive the message then in responding to you in this invisible energy form (spiritual energy) for your good. It’s not easy to sense this invisible energy function but it is all around us, effecting from time to time. Thru life sometime we ran into issues such as driving on road encountered accident or just missed it, some may think it’s bad luck or lucky. But in reality is what you have done in the past (with good deed you then lucky or you done bad to other then you get harm in accident). Everyone born into this dimensional world your spirit energy has a set of energy base, assuming every one average has 1,000 point when born, going thru life your good or bad action will increase or decrease that 1,000 point. Gradual increase to higher point you go thru life be more smooth and well, vice versus. Eventually when your physical body cease at 90 years old, your final spiritual energy count is determine which next dimensional world you be goes to, because numerous dimensional world in the universe has its own energy base, so, if your spiritual energy reach 2,000 point when your physical body die then you may transient into heaven, on the other hand if your energy got reduced to 100 point maybe that’s hell dimensional world then that’s where you will transient to. There are many many other dimensional worlds all have its own set of energy base, however your point end up your spiritual body just go the next matching world. So, everything are functioning by energies but multiple type energy, categorized mainly in two - visible and invisible.
Not trying to be an ass but, if that is what you wish to believe, fine. But there is absolutely no proof what so ever there is life after death or any thing else.
@@Blueknight1960 you don’t believe it that is perfectly normal. Let me ask you, do you believe or accept the symptom of some people has NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE ? Near death experience is the fact that the person’s spirit or soul energy left the physical body but not separate yet, it transient out of existing 3 dimensional world. Soul or spirit is not a hallucination experience, it is an actual energy particle transient into another dimensional world. It’s just a short term stay, not the person total separate from the physical body so it got return. I am sure you experience much dream thru your life, if you notice, in the dream you seldom doubt the event while you in there, but question it when you woke up. Dream is similar situation except it’s not as in depth, it’s a brief experience the soul short term transient out.
@@victorchao6281 No I do not believe in a near death experience. As far as dreams go, they are just that, dreams as far as I'm concerned. I've had all sorts of dreams, even died in one. But most I do not remember or remember that I even dreamed.
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Grace you're not alone in that thought! It's easy to get melancholy as we age... but also, in my case, some of the best things in my life, came out of bad situations- 2 wonderful children, an now 2 awesome grands!! The marriage ended horribly for me, but I have them out of it. My ex missed out on all this happiness and fun, by her own choices.. 1 example of a few in my life. Look back but dont dwell.. ✌ out
This song is great. Another great and relatable song is “Take me back to then” by Bobby Caldwell.
No sweetheart.... Things have been settled long ago. I understand....I'm here for you.
Amen brother
DJ Rockin' Randy sez that he heard that MLB Superstar Mickey Mantle asked for this song to be played at his memorial service. Poignant.
This is about my life.
Amen
Yes . At 79 , how time has gone. For the last 27 years or so , have be the best! I met a girl, I was having a coffee, she ask could she sit at the table I was at , That was Saturday morning, my coffee time . We talked , and spent the weekend together. Sunday night. . We stopped out side her home, she said . Is this the real thing . Or just a weekend thing ? I rang her on Wednesday night. I was late 30 odd !We have been together over 27 years odd , and every happy together. We have 3 kids the 4 legs kind . Yesterday’ when I was young. An Dumb, 🤗 Ming W A
My age . I got wrong. Sorry I was late 40- s- not 30-s. Yes I’m 79 years, Ming WA.
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Worst thing about life is not having do overs ;)
This song was sang at Mickey Mantle's viewing
00:24 , 01:07 , 02:10
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ruclips.net/video/0Q-CxOn2ubg/видео.html A true masterpiece by a maestro!