It Was a Very Good Year

[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