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When I was seventeen it was a very good year
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It was a very good year
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For small town girls and soft summer nights
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We'd hide from the lights
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On the village green when I was seventeen
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When I was twentyone, it was a very good year
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It was a very good year
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For city girls who lived up the stair
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With perfumed hair
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That came undone, when I was twenty-one
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When I was thirty-five it was a very good year
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It was a very good year
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For blue blooded girls of independant means
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We'd ride in limousines
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Their chauffeurs would drive when I was thirty-five
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But now the days are short, I'm in the autumn of the year
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And now I think of my life
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As vintage wine from the old kegs
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From the brim to the dregs
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It poured sweet and clear; it was a very good year