It Was a Very Good Year

Bee Gees

Tom: G

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When I was seventeen,           it was a very good year; 
 
          Em       Em/F#      G  
It was a very good year for small town girls 
 
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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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When I was twenty-one,       it was a very good year; 
 
         Em        Em/F#     G  
It was a very good year for city girls 
 
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Who lived up the stairs 
 
       E                   D 
With perfumed hair that came undone 
 
            E 
When I was twenty-one.     
 
 
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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 
 
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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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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 
 
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In fine old kegs; 
 
          E                       D 
From the brim to the dregs, they pour sweet and clear... 
 
          E 
It was a very good year. 
 
 
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