Chords for Bob Blakeley - It was a very good year

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_ [G] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [C] When _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] I was [Db] seventeen, _ _ _ [F] _ _ [B] _ it was [Eb] a very good _ year. _
_ _ _ It [Dm] was a very good [Db] year [F] for small town girls _ [Eb] and soft summer nights.
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We'd hide from the lights _ _ _ _ _ on [C] the village green.
_ _ _ _ _ _ When [D] I was seventeen, _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ when I [Dm]
was twenty-one, _ _ _
It was [Eb] a very [Bb] good year.
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_ _ It [Dm] was a very good [F]
year for city girls _ [Eb]
who lived up the _ stairs _ _
with [D] all that _ perfumed hair.
_ _ And [C] it came on _ dawn _ _ when I [D] was twenty _ _ -one. _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ When [Dm] I was thirty-five, _ _ _ _ it [Eb] was a very good _ year. _
_ It was [Dm] a very good year [F] for blue-blooded _ [Fm] girls [Eb] of independent _ _ means. _
[D] We'd ride _ _ limousines.
_ _ _ [C] Their chauffeurs would drive.
_ _ _ When I [D] was thirty _ -five, _ _ _ [Dm] and _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ now [Dm] the days are short,
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I'm [Eb] in the autumn of the _ year.
_ _ _ And [D] now I think [A] of my [F] life as vintage wine _
_ [Bb] from [Eb] fine old _ Keg.
_ _ _ [Cm] From the [D] brim to the dress, _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] it poured sweet and clear. _
_ _ _ It was a [D]
very _ good _ year. _
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