It Was A Very Good Year

(album: Swing When You're Winning - 2001)

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 stair
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
Their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five

But now the days are 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
It poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year