Medley: When the World Was Young / Yesterday When I Was Young - Mel Torme, Chris Gunning, Phil Woods

Wherever I go they call me by name

And that in itself is some kind of fame

I’m good for a laugh, and a drink, and a game

Wherever I go, they’re I’m glad that I came

The life that I live, I like it just fine

There’s music and romance and glamour and wine

And beautiful girls and some of them mine

But often my eyes see a different shine

Yesterday When I Was Young

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, alas, on weak and shifting sand

I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day

Only now I see how the years ran away

Yesterday, when I was young

So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung

So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me

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, 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

Never saw the waste and emptiness beyond

The game of life 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 note of tears upon my tongue

The time has come for me to pay for yesterday

When I was young