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It Was A Very Good Year

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It Was A Very Good Year:The Kingston Trio.
Album - Goin' PLaces - #3 on BB Hot 200
on CAPITOL Records in 1961.
       DmAmFA
INTRO:     
#1.
           D    Dm             Gm   Eb
When I was seventeen, it was a very good year.
         D
It was a very good year for small town girls
    Eb
and soft summer nights.
     D                           C
We'd hide from the lights on the village green.
           D
When I was seventeen.
                      DmAmFA
INTERLUDE:(Whistling)     
#2.
           Dm                   Eb
When I was twenty-one, it was a very good year.
         D                  Eb             Ab
It was a very good year for city girls who lived 
up the stair.
     D                   Ab
With perfumed hair, that came undone, when I was 
D
twenty-one.
           DDmAmFA
INTERLUDE:     
#3.
           Dm                    Eb
When I was thirty-five, it was a very good year.
         D         Eb       F    Am
It was a very good year for blue blooded girls
   Eb
of independent means.
     D                         Eb
We'd ride in limousines, their chauffeurs would 
drive.
           D
When I was thirty-five.
           DDmAmFA
INTERLUDE:     
#4.
Dm          D                   Gm     Eb
But now the days are short, I'm in the autumn of 
the year.
          D                   Eb
And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine 
old kegs.
         Dm                    C
From the brim to the dregs, it poured sweet and clear.
         D
It was a very good year.
       DmAmADm
OUTRO:    
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.

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Free chords for It Was A Very Good Year by The Kingston Trio. Scroll the interactive sheet above or read the chord names inline below.

It Was A Very Good Year:The Kingston Trio.
Album - Goin' PLaces - #3 on BB Hot 200
on CAPITOL Records in 1961.
INTRO: Dm Am F A 
#1.
INTERLUDE:(Whistling) Dm Am F A 
#2.
up the stair.
INTERLUDE: D Dm Am F A
#3.
drive.
INTERLUDE: D Dm Am F A
#4.
the year.
old kegs.
OUTRO: Dm Am A Dm
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.

It Was A Very Good Year Chords by The Kingston Trio

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