It Was Very Good Year Lyrics

It Was Very Good Year lyrics

Ervin Drake



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 perfumed 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.