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[Verse 1: Willie Nelson]
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
On the village green
When I was seventeen
[Verse 2: Ray Charles]
When I was twenty-one
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls
Who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair
And it came undone
When I was twenty-one
[Verse 3: Willie Nelson]
When I was thirty-five
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
Of independent means
We'd ride in limousines
And their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five
[Verse 4: Ray Charles, Willie Nelson, Both]
But now the days grow short
I'm in the autumn of my years
And 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
It Was a Very Good Year was written by Ervin Drake.
It Was a Very Good Year was produced by John Burk & Terry Howard & Herbert Waltl.
Ray Charles released It Was a Very Good Year on Tue Aug 31 2004.