Yesterday Tomorrow Was Today

Yesterday Tomorrow Was Today - Billy Joe Shaver

When the autumn leaves were fallen

And the winter winds were callin'

And the southbound geese

Were chasin' summertime

I was hungry then and slender

As well as I remember

Fighting for a place in life

I could call mine

Yesterday tomorrow was today

You dreamer

Yesterday tomorrow was today

At the age of five and ten

I put a handle on the wind

And learned to travel on

The heels of summertime

Like a souped up 50 Ford down

The road of life I roared

Never carin' for a thing

I left behind

Yesterday tomorrow was so far away

Yesterday I was runnin' wild and free

Yesterday tomorrow was today young man

Yesterday tomorrow was today

From New-York to L A up

The San Francisco bay

To the shimmerin' Paris lights

And the warm Australian nights

In the honky-tonks and bars

And the back seats of the cars

I learned my lessons well

And I proudly wore my scars

Yesterday tomorrow was a blinding thing

Yesterday tomorrow came so fast

Yesterday tomorrow was today old friend

Yesterday tomorrow came at last

In the solitary gloom of

Some old lonely hotel room

While struggling for a way

To right the wrong

The Savior Jesus-Christ came

Into my life

The old man passed away

And the young man lives today

Yesterday tomorrow

And today he is the same

Yesterday he washed my sins away

Yesterday tomorrow

And today are the same

Yesterday tomorrow is today