It Was a Very Good Year - The Turtles

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

Of the village green

When I was 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 perfumed hair

That came undone

When I was twenty-one

But now the days grow short

I’m in the autumn of the year

And I think of my life as vintage wine

From fine old kegs

From the brim to the dregs

It flowed sweet and clear

It was a very good year

It was a very good year

It was a very good year

It was a very good year

It was a very good year