[ti:It Was A Very Good Year] [ar:Alfie Boe] [al:Alfie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]It Was A Very Good Year - Alfie Boe [00:22.98]When I was seventeen it was a very good year [00:36.35]It was a very good year [00:39.96]For small town girls and soft summer nights [00:49.85]We'd hide from the light on the village green [01:03.66]When I was seventeen [01:24.09]When I was twenty-one it was a very good year [01:36.09]It was a very good year for city girls [01:42.40]Who lived up the stairs [01:48.39]With perfume hair and it came undone [01:59.58]When I was twenty-one [02:18.04]When I was thirty-five it was a very good year [02:29.82]It was a very good year [02:33.41]For blue-blooded girls of independent means [02:42.44]We'd ride in limousines [02:48.09]And their chauffeurs would drive when I was thirty-five [03:20.19]But now the days grow short [03:27.85]I'm in the autumn of the year [03:34.95]And now I think of my life [03:39.42]As vintage wine from fine old kegs [03:48.57]From the brim to the dregs [03:55.33]And it poured sweet and clear [04:02.23]It was a very good year