It Was A Very Good Year - Frank Sinatra

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When I was seventeen
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It was a very good year
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It was a very good year for small town girls
    F
And soft summer nights
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We’d hide from the lights
       D
On the village green
           E
When I was seventeen

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

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When I was thirty-five
         F
It was a very good year
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It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
   F
Of independent means
     E
We’d ride in limousines
      D
Their chauffeurs would drive
           E
When I was thirty-five

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            Em
But now the days are short
           F
I'm in the autumn of the year
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And now I think of my life as vintage wine
     F
from fine old kegs
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from the brim to the dregs
     D
It’s oh sweet and clear
         E
It was a very good year

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