It Was A Very Good Year Lyrics

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 perfumed hair and it 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, and it poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year



It was a mess of good years

Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra - Vol. 1-Greatest Hits

Oct 1990

1. Strangers In The Night
2. Summer Wind
3. It Was A Very Good Year
4. Somewhere In Your Heart
5. Forget Domani
6. Somethin' Stupid
7. That's Life
8. Tell Her (You Love Her Each Day)
9. The World We Knew (Over And Over)
10. When Somebody Loves You
11. This Town
12. Softly As I Leave You