Last Night When We Were Young

Words & Music by E.Y. "Yip" Harburg & Harold Arlen
Recorded by Carmen MacRae, 1955


 A7  DM7/9 Em7     D9       F#m7  F7-9
Last night    when we were young, 

Cdim       E9      E7-9   Em7   A7
Love was a star, a song unsung;

Edim         D9     Cdim     Em7    Edim
Life was so new, so real so bright, 

A7-9  D  B7       C     A7
Ages ago    last night.


A7  DM7/9 Em7     D9      F#m7  F7-9
To - day     the world is old, 

Cdim      E9      E7-9       Em7   A7
You flew away and time grew cold.

Edim          D9         Cdim     Em7    Edim
Where is that star that shone so bright 

A7-9  D  B7       C     A7
Ages ago    last night?


    Am7                       Cdim  F#7
To think that spring had de - pend - ed on

F7-9    E7        F#7     Dm
Merely this -- a look, a kiss.

    Am7                    F#m7          
To think that something so splen - did 

              Bm7-5   E7-9      Edim    A7-9
Could slip a - way in one little day - break.


A7 DM7/9 Em7       D9       F#m7  F7-9
So  now     let's rem - i - nisce, 

    B7        Am7                   E7-9   F#7
And re -col - lect the sighs and the kis - ses,

     B7       E7-9  E7      Dm      G/B  A7sus4  D9 
The arms that clung    when we were young last  night,

A7-9  D  B7  A7  DM7/9
Ages ago    last night.


*Suggested by recent visitor Thomas Campbell


 
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