[Intro]
|   C Bm7 Am7|G     |D   Dsus2 D|G     |D   Am7 D7
[Strophe]
   G              G7               
It wasn't  really sad  the way they
 C           Csus4 C Csus4 C 
 said goodbye.  
It wasn't  really sad  the way they said goodbye.  
   D               D7              
Or maybe  it just  hurt so bad  she
 G            D  Dsus2 D 
 couldn't cry.  
Or maybe  it just  hurt so bad  she couldn't cry.  
   G                         G7     
He packed his things  walked out the
           C          C  Bm7 
 door  and drove away.  
He packed his things  walked out the door  and drove away.  
Am7 G               D         
And she became  the girl  from
        G      D  Am7 D7 
 yester-day.
And she became  the girl  from yester-day.
[Strophe]
   G               G7               
He took a plane  a-cross the sea  to
      C           Csus4 C Csus4 C 
 some foreign land.  
He took a plane  a-cross the sea  to some foreign land.  
    D                   D7           
She stayed at home  and tried so hard
     G          D  Dsus2 D 
  to understand.  
She stayed at home  and tried so hard  to understand.  
    G                G7            
How someone who  had been so close 
       C             C   Bm7 
 could be so  far  a-way.  
How someone who  had been so close  could be so  far  a-way.  
Am7 G               D         
And she became  the girl  from
        G      G  D Am7 
 yester-day.
And she became  the girl  from yester-day.
[Refrain]
    D                     D          
She doesn't  know  what's right,  she
 C        C9           G 
 doesn't  know  what’s wrong.  
She doesn't  know  what's right,  she doesn't  know  what’s wrong.  
    G     D          Em7        G    
She only  knows  the pain  that comes
       C                 D 
  from waiting  for  so  long.  
She only  knows  the pain  that comes  from waiting  for  so  long.  
        C       C/g       G         
And she doesn't count the teardrops,
            C            C/g    G 
 that she's cried  while he's a-way.
  
And she doesn't count the teardrops, that she's cried  while he's a-way.  
   Em        D          C      G 
Be-cause she knows deep in her heart,
  
Be-cause she knows deep in her heart,  
     Am7          
That he'll be back
 A7   Dsus4      D       
 some-day.
That he'll be back some-day.
[Solo]
|G     |G7        |C     |C  Bm7 Am7|
|G     |D  Dsus2 D|G     |E  Bm7 E7 |
[Strophe]
    A                  A7           
The light's on in  the window, she's
 D                    D      
 waiting by the phone.  
The light's on in  the window, she's waiting by the phone.  
E              E7             A     
Talking to  a  memory, that's never 
        Esus4  E   
 coming home.  
Talking to  a  memory, that's never  coming home.  
    A                 A7 
She dreams of  his re-turning,  
        D                    D 
And the things that he might say. 
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And the things that he might say.  
Bm7        A              E         
But she’ll always be  the girl  from
        A      Bm7 
 yester-day.  
But she’ll always be  the girl  from yester-day.  
            A              E         
Yeah she'll always be  the girl  from
        D   C#m7  Bm7   A 
 yester-da  -  y...
Yeah she'll always be  the girl  from yester-da  -  y...