Ben l'Oncle Soul A Very Good Year song lyrics

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

Under the village green

When I was seventeen

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 stairs

With all that perfumed hair

And it came undone

When I was twenty-one

Their chauffeurs would drive

Then I was thirty-five

Thirty-five

Thirty-five

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

A very good year