As my life zooms bye -- I think of my Mom, Dad and Brother - I am the last of my family -- Pain is the right word........ wish I could go back and be with them..... One lifetime just not enough
I REMEMBER MY PARENTS LISTENING TO THIS WHEN I WAS YOUNG ... SEEMS AS IT WAS ONLY YESTERDAY ...BUT IT WAS A LIFETIME AGO... TIME PASSES SO FAST AND THEN WHEN IT HAS WE LOOK BACK AND WONDER WHERE IT WENT. SO NEVER TAKE ANYTHING FORGRANTED YOU CAN;T GET YESTERDAY BACK...............
Mrlowedog - I think he's talking about a lot of our lives! This isn't the most perfect version of this song by him; so many times I recal being driven to tears, but it will do! In my mind I can hear the incredible emotion he would bring to his songs! That quality along with the absolute magic he performed with a guitar will save him a place in my heart forever! He was perfection, that's for sure! And alternately he had such a sense if humor and mischief about him. He's one of those guys you'd
Yesterday when I was young The taste of life was sweet As rain opon my tounge I teased at life as if It were a foolish game The way the evening breeze Plays with a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed The splendid things I planned I always built to last On weak and shifting sands I lived by night Declined the naked light of day And only now I see How years that ran away Yesterday when I was young So many happy songs Were waiting to be sung So many crazy times That lay in store for me And so much pain inside My desert eye 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 That I can now recall Has all to do with me And nothing else at all Yesterday the moon was blue And every crazy dat Brought something new to do I used my magic age As if it were a wand And never say the waste And emptiness beyond The games 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 oly I am left On stage to end the play
Of the many dozens of various artists who sang Charles Aznavour's great song Roy Clark was one of the best. No one, however, matches Aznavour in either English or the original French. Since he wrote it, he also knows it best.
Im 52 but this song has kicked my azz for twenty years , lost my high school love then 4 years later got a friend prego and that lasted 17 years , and now SOLO and kinda sad
Lyrics....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...
Worst Video, but best Audio for this Song........NOBODY sings this Song Better than Roy Clark, who fulfilled a promise to Mickey Mantle by performing this song at his funeral.......Sad.....very True for a guy like Mantle, who never felt he fulfilled his Promise.......and who dreamed of being announced at Yankee Stadium......and he was Locked out......!
MAESTRO
MAESTRO
MAESTRO
MAESTRO
Great rendition
seems we all feel like this about our younger days, why can we explain this to our children?
As my life zooms bye -- I think of my Mom, Dad and Brother - I am the last of my family -- Pain is the right word........ wish I could go back and be with them..... One lifetime just not enough
I REMEMBER MY PARENTS LISTENING TO THIS WHEN I WAS YOUNG ... SEEMS AS IT WAS ONLY YESTERDAY ...BUT IT WAS A LIFETIME AGO... TIME PASSES SO FAST AND THEN WHEN IT HAS WE LOOK BACK AND WONDER WHERE IT WENT. SO NEVER TAKE ANYTHING FORGRANTED YOU CAN;T GET YESTERDAY BACK...............
Mrlowedog - I think he's talking about a lot of our lives!
This isn't the most perfect version of this song by him; so many times I recal being driven to tears, but it will do! In my mind I can hear the incredible emotion he would bring to his songs! That quality along with the absolute magic he performed with a guitar will save him a place in my heart forever! He was perfection, that's for sure! And alternately he had such a sense if humor and mischief about him. He's one of those guys you'd
So true, time has flown and here I am, wishing I could live it all over again. Beautiful thought provoking song.
Yesterday when I was young
The taste of life was sweet
As rain opon my tounge
I teased at life as if
It were a foolish game
The way the evening breeze
Plays with a candle flame
The thousand dreams I dreamed
The splendid things I planned
I always built to last
On weak and shifting sands
I lived by night
Declined the naked light of day
And only now I see
How years that ran away
Yesterday when I was young
So many happy songs
Were waiting to be sung
So many crazy times
That lay in store for me
And so much pain inside
My desert eye 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
That I can now recall
Has all to do with me
And nothing else at all
Yesterday the moon was blue
And every crazy dat
Brought something new to do
I used my magic age
As if it were a wand
And never say the waste
And emptiness beyond
The games 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 oly I am left
On stage to end the play
Now that I'm old I realize this is the greatest country song ever!
Of the many dozens of various artists who sang Charles Aznavour's great song Roy Clark was one of the best. No one, however, matches Aznavour in either English or the original French. Since he wrote it, he also knows it best.
RIP Roy...The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young
What a great song
Im 52 but this song has kicked my azz for twenty years , lost my high school love then 4 years later got a friend prego and that lasted 17 years , and now SOLO and kinda sad
in 1961 in french HIER ENCORE
this songs words are so true for me and for so many others i am sure ..cant stop playing it .
for me dosen;t matter who actually first recorded . LOVE THIS SONG BY ROY... locofunny i,m 60 and cudos to u to recognize squandered time so early
Perfect description of my life.......
RIP . Beautiful song
Life is to short to hate grab life and love it
We used to listen to stuff and want to be "more" than we were.
when i was young..Great song.
Roy was so talented just name an instrument and he could play it, RIP. Loved this song of his , reaches so deelply.
Roy is not dead. You can save the RIP for another time far in the future I hope.
OMG Roy he is alive, you're crazy
Fuckin’ A right Roy
great deep song i cant say enough good about it
Lyrics....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...
I will always love this song
Amen sister Amen
So very very true. We have danced, and now we must pay the fiddler.
He sang this song at Mickey Mantle's funeral in Dallas. (He also sang Amazing Grace)
I didn’t know that. Thank you!
I LIKE IT...SUPER.
the time has come for me to pay for yesterday when i was young
you cannot...time will teach this to them also
This song (not this cover, though) was released in 1964, written by Charles Aznavour and Georges Garvarentz.
Roy is still alive at 81
Me too:(
keep dancing!
Look at a gravestone Born 1920 died 2000..1920-2000 your life is the dash between the too. Pretty small isn't it.
Wikipedia says Roy was born on April 15, 1933. There is not date of death. If he's alive, he's 82.
Worst Video, but best Audio for this Song........NOBODY sings this Song Better than Roy Clark, who fulfilled a promise to Mickey Mantle by performing this song at his funeral.......Sad.....very True for a guy like Mantle, who never felt he fulfilled his Promise.......and who dreamed of being announced at Yankee Stadium......and he was Locked out......!
Okay,well....This song just revealed to me the truth about myself.......What now? Oh lord.......
is he a are died then?
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huh? speak english you fool
hahaha its not a country song
writen and version original by CHARLES AZNAVOUR in 1961