[Instrumental Intro]
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Dm F Dm F
Dm F Dm A
When I was seventeen
Eb Gm Eb Gm
It was a very good year
Dm F Dm F
It was a very good year for small town girls
Eb Gm Eb Gm
-- And soft summer nights
Dm F Dm F
We hided from the lights
C
On the village green
D
When I was seventeen
Eb D Gm A
Dm
When I was twenty-one
Eb
It was a very good year
Dm
It was a very good year for city girls
Eb
Who lived upstairs
D
With all that perfumed hair
C
And it came undone
D
When I was twenty-one
Dm Dm Ab Fm7
Am A
Dm
When I was thirty-five
Eb
It was a very good year
Dm
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
Eb
Of independent means
D
We'd ride in limousines
C
And their chauffeurs would drive
D
When I was thirty-five
[Interlude ]
C C D D
Am A
Dm
But now the days grow short
Eb
I'm in the autumn of the year
Dm
And now I think of my life as vintage wine
Eb
From fine old kegs
D
From the brim to the dregs
C
And it poured sweet and clear
D
It was a very good year
C
It was a very good year
D
It was a very good year
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