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Dm C Bbmaj7
I tried hard to be useful, but no dice
Cmaj7 Dm7
With no spit left I couldn't soften leather
D D7 Em7
With these old hands I couldn't even sew
E Fflat5
So yesterday they left me on the ice
Bm/F# E/G# A9
I could barely lift my head to watch them go
D D7 Gmaj7
The sky was white, my eyes grew full of snow
D D7 Gmaj7
And what thing reached me first, bears or the weather
A11
I just don't know
G E7 G
Yesterday was oh so long ago, yesterday was oh so long ago
Dm
-- so very long ago
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Dm C Bbmaj7
I saw across our path through the lagoon
Cmaj7 Dm7
Thick shrubberies of hail collide and quarrel
D D7 Em7
Sudden trees of shellburst hump and blow
E Fflat5
Our LVT turned through the reef too soon
Bm/F# E/G# A9
The front went down, we all got set to go
D D7 Gmaj7
But the whole routine was just too bloody slow
D D7 Gmaj7
What kind of splinters hit me, steel or coral
A11
I just don't know
G E7 G
Yesterday was oh so long ago, yesterday was oh so long ago
Dm
-- so very long ago
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Dm C Bbmaj7
We hit the secret trails towards thin air
Cmaj7 Dm7
Aware we'd never live to tell the story
D D7 Em7
And at the last deep lake before the snow
E Fflat5
We rigged the slings, chipped out the water-stair
Bm/F# E/G# A9
Swung out the holy gold and let it go
D D7 Gmaj7
It sank so far it didn't even glow
D D7 Gmaj7
And if the priest died too to share our glory
A11
I just don't know
G E7 G
Yesterday was oh so long ago, yesterday was oh so long ago
Dm
-- so very long ago
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Dm C Bbmaj7
Yesterday we finished with the ditch
Cmaj7 Dm7
We stacked our spades and knelt in groups of seven
D D7 Em7
Our hands were wired by an NCO
E Fflat5
With a fluent-from-long-practice loop and hitch
Bm/F# E/G# A9
No dice -- there was nothing left to throw
D D7 Gmaj7
A bump against your neck and down you go
D D7 Gmaj7
And if I kept my peace or cried to heaven
A11
I just don't know
G E7 G
Yesterday was oh so long ago, yesterday was oh so long ago
Dm
-- so very long ago
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Dm C Bbmaj7
Yesterday from midnight until dawn
Cmaj7 Dm7
I lay remembering my lost endeavour
D D7 Em7
The love song that would capture how things flow
E Fflat5
The one song that refuses to be born
Bm/F# E/G# A9
For I have tried a thousand times or so
D D7 Gmaj7
To link the ways men die with how they grow
D D7 Gmaj7
But no dice, and if I'll do it ever
A11
I just don't know
G E7 G
Yesterday was oh so long ago, yesterday was oh so long ago
E7 G
Yesterday was oh so long ago, yesterday was oh so long ago
E7 Dm
Yesterday was oh so long ago, yesterday was oh so long ago
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