It Was a Very Good Year

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When I was seventeen,           
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it was a very good year;

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It was a very good year for small 
town girls

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And soft summer nights;

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We'd hide from the lights on the 
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village green

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When I was seventeen.


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When I was twenty-one,       it 
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was a very good year;

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It was a very good year for city 
girls

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Who lived up the stairs

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With perfumed hair that came undone

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When I was twenty-one.


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When I was thirty-five,         
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 it was a very good year;

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It was a very good year for 
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blue-blooded girls

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Of independent means;

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We're ride in limousines that their
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 chauffeurs would drive

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When I was thirty-five.


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And now the days are short,     
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     I'm in the autumn of my 
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years,

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And now I think of my life as  
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vintage wines

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In fine old kegs;

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From the brim to the dregs, they 
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pour sweet and clear...

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It was a very good year.


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