Only yesterday    (intro)    (midi)

 

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1. After long enough of being alone, 

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    ev'ryone must face their share of loneliness.

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    In my own time nobody knew, the pain I was goin' thru,

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    and waitin' was all my heart could do.

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2. Hope was all I had until you came,

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    maybe you can't see how much you mean to me.

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    You were the dawn breaking the night, the promise of morning light,

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    filling the world surrounding me, when I hold you.

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    Baby, baby, feels like maybe, things will be alright.

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    Baby, baby, your love's made me, free as a song, singin' for ever.

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    Only yesterday when I was sad and I was lonely,

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    you showed me the way to leave the past, and all it's tears behind me.

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    Tomorrow maybe even brighter than today,

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    since I threw my sadness away. Only yesterday. 

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3. I have found my home here in your arms,

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    nowhere else on earth I really rather be.

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    Life waits for us, share it with me, the best is about to be,

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    and so much is left for us to see, when I hold you.

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    Baby, baby, feels like maybe, things will be alright.

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    Baby, baby, your love's made me, free as a song, singin' for ever.

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    Only yesterday when I was sad and I was lonely,

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    you showed me the way to leave the past, and all it's tears behind me.

F#                                      Bm                   

    Tomorrow maybe even brighter than today,

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    since I threw my sadness away. Only yesterday. 

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    Only yesterday when I was sad and I was lonely….

(capo 2nd)

 

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