Paul Smith Music  Lyrics and Chords
         
         Days Of Yesteryear
                                          
                                     
                                      About the song:
                                      I grew up living near the mouth of the Susquehanna River in Maryland.
                                      At the north part of the Chesapeake Bay on that river was a small town 
                                      we called "Perry" (for Perryville).  This is the place that I sing about in 
                                      this song.  One morning before I got up out of bed, there was a mocking
                                      bird just singing his heart out, right outside my bedroom window.  As the 
                                      bird just kept on singing I slipped into a state of half awake and half asleep.
                                      My mind went back to those days living on that river.  They are some of my 
                                      fondest memories.  That little bird inspired me to write this song.   
                                     
                                     

                                                             Days Of Yesteryear                                                
                                                             By Paul Smith copyright 2005                
                                                                                      Capo 2nd fret    
      

 

Introduction:  D  G  D  G  D  G D  D

                      D            G           D       G              D           G        D
Well there’s a little bird, she’s bin sitting outside my window.
                   D            c#    Bm         D         Em         A
She’s been singing her little heart out just for me.
              G              A                    D                   c#          G        D
And the melody she brings, from the branch where upon she sings,
G                            A7                         D   G   D   G   D   G   D
carries me away to a place that I long to be.

                 D         G     D             G       D
Back when I was a boy growing up in the country.
Well I remember a time and a place of long ago.
Back on the banks of the Susquehanna, lived a girl by the name of Shanna
She and I made a team who where raring to go.

Chorus:
Bm                          F#m                         Em            Asus4 A7
         Going back to yesteryear, back when I was just a lad.
Bm                                 F#m                         Em            Asus4 A7
        It all comes back so crystal clear in these memories I have.
G                       A                  D          c#         G     D
     By and by I’ll sigh, with that burning question why.
                      G                  A                       D    G   D   G   D   G   D
         Then I’ll smile a gentle smile and start a new.

Well, Shanna and I were the best of friends and then some.
She used to sit and sing her loving heart out just for me.
We were young and without a care, and our dreams we would love to share.
And we would talk of things and of places we longed to see.

Well, I remember the time with her had in mine, back in Perry
We were running just as hard and fast as we could go.
But when running on down a hill, she lost her footing and took a spill.
That tore my heart in a way she could never know.

Chorus:
    Back in days of yesteryear, some memories are sad.
    But all in all, it is crystal clear, some are the best that I ever had.
    By and by I’ll sigh, in that burning question why.
    Then I’ll smile a gentle smile and start a new.

Well, many a years gone by, how the time does fly, but now I know,
Why those years never took those memories away from me.
But now, all that I can say, I wish we never had parted ways,
and it’s taken me all this time for me to clearly see.

For there’s a little bird, she’s bin sitting outside my window.
She been singing her little heart out just for me.
And the melody she brings, from the branch where upon she sings,
carries me away to a place that I long to be.

Yah the melody that she brings, from the branch where upon she sings,
carries me away to a place that I long to be.

Chorus:
    Back to days of yesteryear, back when I was just a lad.
    It all comes back so crystal clear in these melodies I have.
    By and by I’ll sigh, with that burning question why.
    Then I’ll smile a gentle smile and start a new.

Em                            Asus4    A7            D       G
Then I’ll smile a gentle smile.... ........ and start a new.

          D       G     D   G    D

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