It Was A Very Good Year:The Kingston Trio.
Album - Goin' PLaces - #3 on BB Hot 200
on CAPITOL Records in 1961.
INTRO: Dm Am F A
#1.
D Dm Gm Eb
When I was seventeen, it was a very good year.
D
It was a very good year for small town girls
Eb
and soft summer nights.
D C
We'd hide from the lights on the village green.
D
When I was seventeen.
INTERLUDE:(Whistling) Dm Am F A
#2.
Dm Eb
When I was twenty-one, it was a very good year.
D Eb Ab
It was a very good year for city girls who lived
up the stair.
D Ab
With perfumed hair, that came undone, when I was
D
twenty-one.
INTERLUDE: D Dm Am F A
#3.
Dm Eb
When I was thirty-five, it was a very good year.
D Eb F Am
It was a very good year for blue blooded girls
Eb
of independent means.
D Eb
We'd ride in limousines, their chauffeurs would
drive.
D
When I was thirty-five.
INTERLUDE: D Dm Am F A
#4.
Dm D Gm Eb
But now the days are short, I'm in the autumn of
the year.
D Eb
And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine
old kegs.
Dm C
From the brim to the dregs, it poured sweet and clear.
D
It was a very good year.
OUTRO: Dm Am A Dm
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
