It Was A Very Good Year chords by The Kingston Trio

Chords with lyrics

It Was A augmentedA Very Good Year:The Kingston Trio.
Album - Goin' PLaces - #3 on BB Hot 200
on CAPITOL Records in 1961.


INTRO: DmDm A minorAm FF A augmentedA


#1.
      D MajorD  DmDm       G minorGm  Eb MajorEb
When I was seventeen, it was a very good year.
     D MajorD
It was a very good year for small town girls
  Eb MajorEb
and soft summer nights.
   D MajorD              C majorC
We'd hide from the lights on the village green.
      D MajorD
When I was seventeen.

INTERLUDE:(Whistling) DmDm A minorAm FF A augmentedA

#2.
      DmDm          Eb MajorEb
When I was twenty-one, it was a very good year.
     D MajorD         Eb MajorEb       AbAb
It was a very good year for city girls who lived

up the stair.
   D MajorD          AbAb
With perfumed hair, that came undone, when I was
D MajorD
twenty-one.


INTERLUDE: D MajorD DmDm A minorAm FF A augmentedA

#3.
      DmDm          Eb MajorEb
When I was thirty-five, it was a very good year.
     D MajorD     Eb MajorEb    FF  A minorAm
It was a very good year for blue blooded girls
  Eb MajorEb
of independent means.
   D MajorD             Eb MajorEb
We'd ride in limousines, their chauffeurs would

drive.
      D MajorD
When I was thirty-five.

INTERLUDE: D MajorD DmDm A minorAm FF A augmentedA


#4.
DmDm     D MajorD          G minorGm   Eb MajorEb
But now the days are short, I'm in the autumn of

the year.
     D MajorD          Eb MajorEb
And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine

old kegs.
     DmDm          C majorC
From the brim to the dregs, it poured sweet and clear.
     D MajorD
It was a very good year.


OUTRO: DmDm A minorAm A augmentedA DmDm



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