It Was A Very Good Year Lyrics

It Was A Very Good Year

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'd hide from the light on the
village green when I was seventeen.
When I was twenty-one, it was a very
good year.
It was a very good year for city
girls who lived up the
stairs
With perfume hair that came undone
when I was
twenty-one.

When I was thirty-five, it was a very good year.
It was a
very good year for blue-blooded
girls of independent means.
We'd ride in
limousines. Their chauffeurs
would drive when I was thirty-five.

But
now the days are short, I'm in the
autumn of the year
and now I think of
my life as vintage
wine from fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs. It
poured
sweet and clear. It was a very good year