It was a Very Good Year

Frank Sinatra

It Was A Very Good Year chords for acoustic guitar
Frank Sinatra 1965 (Ervin Drake) ***
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Was_a_Very_Good_Year
 
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           Am
When I was seventeen
         Bb *
It was a very good year
         Am                 C
It was a very good year for small town girls
    Bb
And soft summer nights
     A
We’d hide from the lights
       G
On the village green
           A
When I was seventeen
 
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           Am
When I was twenty-one
         Bb
It was a very good year
         Am                 C
It was a very good year for city girls
    Bb
Who lived up the stair
              A
With all that perfumed hair
       G
and it came undone
           A
When I was twenty-one
 
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           Am
When I was thirty-five
         Bb
It was a very good year
         Am                 C
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
   Bb
Of independent means
     A
We’d ride in limousines
      G
Their chauffeurs would drive
           A
When I was thirty-five
 
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            Am
But now the days are short
           Bb
I'm in the autumn of the year
    Am                C
And now I think of my life as vintage wine
     Bb
from fine old kegs
         A
from the brim to the dregs
   G
It poured sweet and clear
         A
It was a very good year ****
 
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**** "The Turtles" covered this song and ended it as below:
 
G         A             G
 It was a very good year . . . .
 
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