Frank Sinatra – It Was A Very Good Year (Guitar)

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It Was A Very Good Year chords for acoustic guitar Frank Sinatra 1965 (Ervin Drake) *** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Was_a_Very_Good_Year Dm A **

           Dm
When I was seventeen

         Eb *
It was a very good year

         Dm                 F
It was a very good year for small town girls

    Eb
And soft summer nights

     D
We’d hide from the lights

       C
On the village green

           D
When I was seventeen

Dm A

           Dm
When I was twenty-one

         Eb  
It was a very good year

         Dm                 F
It was a very good year for city girls

    Eb
Who lived up the stair

              D
With all that perfumed hair

       C
and it came undone

           D
When I was twenty-one

Dm A

           Dm
When I was thirty-five

         Eb
It was a very good year

         Dm                 F
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls

   Eb
Of independent means

     D
We’d ride in limousines

      C
Their chauffeurs would drive

           D
When I was thirty-five

Dm A

            Dm
But now the days are short

           Eb
I'm in the autumn of the year

    Dm                F
And now I think of my life as vintage wine

     Eb
from fine old kegs

         D
from the brim to the dregs

   C
It poured sweet and clear

         D              
It was a very good year ****

Dm A * Eb chord:

e|-3--|
B|--4-|
G|-3--|
D|----|
A|----|
E|----|

** A7 also works *** Alternates: Capo I Dm = C#m Eb = D F = E D = C# C = B A = Ab Capo III Dm = Bm Eb = C F = D D = B C = A A = F# Capo V Dm = Am Eb = Bb F = C D = A C = G A = E Open (These chords are not in the original key) Dm = Em Eb = F F = G D = E C = D A = B **** "The Turtles" covered this song and ended it as below:

C         D             C 
 It was a very good year . . . .

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