"Yesterdays" — Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach's 1933 backward gaze.
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
And truth was mine
Joyous free and flaming life
Forsooth was mine
Sad am i
Glad am i
For today Im dreaming of
Of yesterdays
Then gay youth was mine
The truth was mine
Sad am i
Glad am i
For today Im dreaming of
Of yesterdays
Знаете ли вы, что...
- From Roberta (1933). The catalogue of what yesterday contained — gay youth, mad romance, foolish heart. Kern's chromatic melody supporting Harbach's elegiac lyric. Sinatra's recording inhabiting the nostalgia with full knowledge of where it leads.