It Was A Very Good Year Lyrics

When I was seventeen
It was a very good year
It was a very good year
For small town girls and soft summer nights
We would hide from the lights
On the village green
That′s when I was seventeen
Seventeen

When he was twenty-one
It was a very good year
It was a very good year
For big city girls who lived up the stairs
With all of that perfumed hair
Oh, and it came undone
That's when he was twenty-one
When he was twenty-one

When he was thirty-five
It was a very good year
It was a very good year
For blue-blooded girls of independent means
They would ride in their limousines
That the girls′ chauffeurs would drive
When he was thirty-five
When he was thirty-five

But now the days grow short
He's in the autumn of the years
And now he thinks of his life
As vintage wine from fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
Oh, it pours sweet and clear

It was a very good year
It was a very good year
From the brim to the dregs
It poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year
It was a very good year
Very good
Very good