Yesterdays

by Carmen McRae

From the album: Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics

Track 2 of 14 on Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics (1962).

Duration: 4:52

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Lyrics for Yesterdays

Yesterdays Yesterdays Days I knew as happy, sweet Sequestered days Olden days Golden days Days of mad romance and love Then gay youth was mine Truth was mine Joyous, free, and flaming life Forsooth was mine Sad am I Glad am I For today, I'm dreaming of yesterdays Yesterdays Yesterdays Days I knew as happy, sweet, sequestered days Olden days Golden days of mad romance and love Then gay youth was mine I looked around, and truth was mine Joyous, free, and flaming life, forsooth, was mine Sad am I Glad am I For today, I'm dreaming of Today, I'm dreaming of I'm dreaming of Then gay youth was mine Truth was mine Joyous, free, and flaming life, forsooth, was mine Sad am I Glad am I For today, I'm dreaming of yesterdays Yesterdays Yesterdays Yesterdays

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More from Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics

  1. Them There Eyes
  2. Yesterdays
  3. I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key)
  4. Strange Fruit
  5. Miss Brown to You
  6. My Man
  7. I Cried for You (Now It's Your Turn to Cry Over Me)
  8. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
  9. Trav'lin' Light
  10. Some Other Spring
  11. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
  12. God Bless the Child
  13. If the Moon Turns Green
  14. The Christmas Song