It Was a Very Good Year

Intro: : Em : Am : Em - Gdim : B7 :


            Em    E+  Em7   Em6           F              Fm7/6   F
When I was seventeen,           it was a very good year;

          Em       Em/F#      G
It was a very good year for small town girls

     F                 Fm7/6    F
And soft summer nights;

     E                            D
We'd hide from the lights on the village green

            E
When I was seventeen.


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           Em     E+  Em7 Em6          F               Fm7/6    F
When I was twenty-one,       it was a very good year;

         Em        Em/F#     G
It was a very good year for city girls

      F                 Fm7/6   F
Who lived up the stairs

       E                   D
With perfumed hair that came undone

            E
When I was twenty-one.


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            Em      E+  Em7 Em6            F              Fm7/6  F
When I was thirty-five,          it was a very good year;

         Em        Em/F#      G
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls

    F                Fm7/6  F
Of independent means;

       E                              D
We're ride in limousines that their chauffeurs would drive

            E
When I was thirty-five.


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             Em       E+   Em7  Em6              F                Fm7/6  F
And now the days are short,          I'm in the autumn of my years,

           Em         Em/F#      G
And now I think of my life as  vintage wines

    F            Fm7/6  F
In fine old kegs;

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

          E
It was a very good year.


Instrumental Coda:

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