It Was a Very Good Year

It Was a Very Good Year - Thomas Young/Jay Leonhart/Ervin Drake/Grady Tate/Mike Renzi

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

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 crazy 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 chauffeur 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

You pouring sweet and clear

It was a very good year