Chords for LOU RAWLS LIVE - IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR

[N] [C] Please welcome once [B] again [D#] the [F#] very [C#m] wonderful [A] Mr.
[A#] Lou [C] Rawls. _
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When [B] I was [Dm] seventeen, _ _ _ _ _ it was a very good [D#] year.
_ _ _ _ [Dm] It was a very good year for small [F] town girls _ and [D#] soft summer nights. _
_ _ _ We would [D] hide _
_ [A] from the lights _ _ _ [C] out on the village street. _ _ _
_ Now [G] that's when I was _ [C#m] seventeen.
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_ [F#] _ _ _ When I [D] was twenty-one, _ _ _ it was [D#] a very good year.
_ _ _ It was [A] a very good year [F] for big city girls that lived [D#] up the stairs.
_ They had all [A] the perfume [D] heads.
_ Oh, and it [C]
came undone.
_ [G] That's when I was twenty [Dm]-one.
_ _ When I was twenty-one.
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_ [F] _ _ [F#] _ When I was thirty [G]-five, _ [Dm] it was a very [D#] good year.
_ _ It [F] was a very good year for blue-bodied girls of [D#] independent means.
_ _ We [Em] would ride in [A] limousines _ [D] _ that the [G] chauffeurs would drive.
_ When I was [Bm] thirty-five.
_ _ [E] When I was thirty [D]-five.
_ But now those days grow short.
_ It is the [D#] autumn of the years.
_ And [Dm] now I think about life [F] as vintage [D#] wine from fine old case.
_ From [D] the brim to the trace, _ Stevie, [G] it bore sweet and clear.
Yes, it was a [D] very good year.
_ It was a very good [A#] year.
Oh, [F] _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ yeah.
_ [D] _ Yes, [A] from the [E] brim to the trace, _ [Em] it bore sweet [G] and clear.
_ Oh, it was a [Bm] very good year.
_ _ [A] It was a [Bm] very good year.
_ _ [A] It was very good.
_ _ _ [Bm] They are very good.
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_ [E] _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[F#m] _ [B] [C#m] Ladies and gentlemen, how about a big hand for Mr.
Echo Vicky Miner and his band. _ _