Ervin Drake - It Was A Very Good Year lyrics

[Verse 1] 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 [Verse 2] 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 perfumed hair That came undone When I was twenty-one [Verse 3] 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 [Verse 4] 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 It poured sweet and clear It was a very good year