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It Was A Very Good Year

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The Kingston Trio is an American folk group that helped launch the folk revival of the 1960s and continued to thrive despite the emergence of rock and roll.

The Kingston Trio was formed in 1957 in the Palo Alto, California area by original lineup of Dave Guard (1934–1991), Bob Shane (1934–2020), and Nick Reynolds (1933–2008), who were just out of college. Greatly influenced by The Weavers, the calypso sounds of Harry Belafonte, and other semi-popular folk artists such as the Gateway Singers and the Tarriers

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It Was A Very Good Year:The Kingston Trio.
Album - Goin' PLaces - #3 on BB Hot 200
on CAPITOL Records in 1961.

INTRO: Dm Am F A

#1.
D Dm Gm Eb
When I was seventeen, it was a very good year.
D
It was a very good year for small town girls
Eb
and soft summer nights.
D C
We'd hide from the lights on the village green.
D
When I was seventeen.

INTERLUDE:(Whistling) Dm Am F A

#2.
Dm Eb
When I was twenty-one, it was a very good year.
D Eb Ab
It was a very good year for city girls who lived

up the stair.
D Ab
With perfumed hair, that came undone, when I was
D
twenty-one.

INTERLUDE: D Dm Am F A

#3.
Dm Eb
When I was thirty-five, it was a very good year.
D Eb F Am
It was a very good year for blue blooded girls
Eb
of independent means.
D Eb
We'd ride in limousines, their chauffeurs would

drive.
D
When I was thirty-five.

INTERLUDE: D Dm Am F A

#4.
Dm D Gm Eb
But now the days are short, I'm in the autumn of

the year.
D Eb
And now I think of my life as vintage wine from fine

old kegs.
Dm C
From the brim to the dregs, it poured sweet and clear.
D
It was a very good year.

OUTRO: Dm Am A Dm

A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.