It Was A Very Good Year [The Frank Sinatra Collection] [1966 Live At The Sands Album Version] by Frank Sinatra
Time: 04:01
Track #15 from the album Sinatra At The Sands [with Count Basie & His Orchestra].
Written by: Davies, Ivor Arthur
Published by: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., EMI Music Publishing, THE SONGWRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA
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 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 my years
And 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
