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[Verse 1]
        C             D
Could I only find the way back to the yesterdays
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To the golden days of my childhood play
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My life would be different, my enemies would be friends
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My leisures not wasted nor my life so full of sins.
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If I could only find the way back to the days of my childhood play

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[Verse 2]
        C               D
Could I only find those days as they were then
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The golden days to live all over a-gain
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My paths would not be empty, I'd make a mark in light
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My mother so happy and her hair not near so white
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If I could only find the way back to the days of my childhood play

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[Verse 3]
        C              D
Could I only find the days as they were seen
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And childish joys not speed away like dreams
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The schoolhouse on the hilltop and the meadows all in bloom
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The birdsong in the willow and not a  world so full of gloom
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If I could only find the way back to the days of my childhood pl-a-y