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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