It Was A Very Good Year Lyrics - Willie Nelson

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 

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When I was twenty-one 

It was a very good year 

It was a very good year 

For city girls 

Who lived upstairs 

With all that perfumed hair 

And it came undone 

When I was twenty-one 

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 

As their chauffeurs would drive 

When I was thirty-five 

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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 

And it poured sweet and clear 

It was a very good year 

It was a very good year 

It was a very good year