Track Title:               It Was A Very Good Year

Album Title:               Sinatra at the Sands with Count Basie Orchestra
Prime Artist:              Frank Sinatra
Producer:                  Reginald (Sonny) Burke
Written by:                Ervin M. Drake


Lyrics:
{spoken intro: Here's an awfully pretty folk song.}

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 lights on the village green
When I was seventeen

<brief instrumental>

When I was twenty-one it was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair and it came undone
When I was twenty-one

<brief instrumental>

Then 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

<brief instrumental>

But now the days grow 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, and it poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year

<brief instrumental>

It was a mess of good years


Transcribed by Ron Hontz
Validated by Todd Peach <tpeach@gte.net>
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