Billie Holiday Discography   Lyrics

Yesterdays (1933)

lyrics by Otto Harbach

music by Jerome Kern

rec date type # discography tk rec time
1939 MT 118 Complete Commodore v.1 3 3'23"

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
Then sooth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreamin' of
Yesterdays

(2nd section, double-time)

Yesterdays
Yesterdays
Days I knew as happy sweet
Sequestered days
Olden days
Golden days
Days of mad romance and love
For then gay youth was mine
Truth was mine
Joyous free and flaming life
Then sooth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreamin' of
Yesterdays

Yesterdays

rec date type # discography tk rec time
1939 AT 118a Complete Commodore v.1 4 2'58"

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
Then sooth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreamin' of
Yesterdays

(2nd section, double-time)

Yesterdays
Yesterdays
Days I knew as happy sweet
Sequestered days
Olden days
Golden days
Days of mad romance and love
For then gay youth was mine
Truth was mine
Joyous free and flaming life
Then sooth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreamin' of
Yesterdays

Yesterdays

rec date type # discography tk rec time
1952 MT 237 Complete On Verve v.2 12 2'48"

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
Then sooth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreamin' of
Yesterdays

(2nd section, double-time)

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
Then truth was mine
Free and flaming life
Sooth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreamin' of
Yesterdays

Yesterdays

 

rec date type # discography tk rec time
1952 MT 237 Complete on Verve v.2 12 2'48"

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
Then truth was mine
Joyous free and flaming life
Then sooth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreaming of
Yesterdays

2nd section, double-time

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
Then truth was mine
Free and flaming life
Sooth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreaming of
Yesterdays

rec date type # discography tk rec time
1956 LR 168 Complete on Verve v.8 10 1'16"

Shorter version, double-time

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
Free and flaming life
Than sooth was mine
Sad am I
Glad am I
For today I'm dreaming of
Yesterdays

(applauses)

 

Comments

From the play Roberta with Fay Templeton

Special thanks to Jerry Meyer (NY) who contributed in this transcription.