It Was A Very Good Year Lyrics - Rod Stewart

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 all that perfumed hair and it came undone 

When I was twenty-one 

Then I was thirty-five it was a very good year 

It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls of independent means 

Who'd ride in limousines and their chauffeurs would drive 

When I was thirty-five 

When I was fifty-three it was a wonderful year 

It was a wonderful year to find the girl I'd call my own 

A place where I belong and she'd love only me 

When I was fifty-three 

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But now the days grow short, I'm in the autumn of my years 

And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs 

From the brim to the dregs, and it poured sweet and clear 

It was a very good year