It Was A Very Good Year

[ti:It Was A Very Good Year] [ar:Della Reese] [al:Heavy Deep Funk] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.54]It Was A Very Good Year - Della Reese [00:03.85] [00:15.82]I get rego [00:16.45] [00:17.64]As though it's yesterday [00:18.64] [00:20.25]Everything thinks so clear [00:21.82] [00:23.69]Memory that thing [00:24.50] [00:25.19]Time that pass away [00:26.38] [00:27.50]It's my cheers year [00:28.99] [00:31.31]When I was seventeen [00:32.36] [00:35.11]It was a very good year [00:36.35] [00:39.04]It was a very good year [00:40.04] [00:40.85]For country boys [00:41.47] [00:43.22]And soft summer nights [00:44.59] [00:46.97]We'd hide from the lights [00:48.33] [00:50.83]On the village green [00:51.64] [00:54.50]I am a boy when I was seventeen [00:57.43] [01:05.59]When I was twenty-one [01:06.72] [01:08.97]It was a very good year [01:10.34] [01:12.90]It was a very good year [01:14.03] [01:14.83]For big city man [01:15.64] [01:16.71]Who lived up the stair [01:18.20] [01:20.52]With all that perfumed hair [01:22.13] [01:24.44]And it came undone [01:25.37] [01:27.94]When I was twenty-one [01:32.49]I get rego [01:33.17] [01:34.23]As though it's yesterday [01:35.42] [01:36.54]Everything thinks so clear [01:38.72] [01:40.03]Memory that thing [01:40.97] [01:41.78]Time that pass away [01:43.03] [01:43.65]It's my cheers year [01:45.71] [01:48.15]When I was thirty-five [01:49.28] [01:51.96]It was a very good year [01:53.39] [01:55.82]It was a very good year [01:56.82] [01:57.63]For blue-blooded men [01:58.57] [02:00.06]Of independent means [02:00.94] [02:03.80]We'd ride in limousines [02:04.87] [02:07.37]Their chauffeurs would drive [02:08.30] [02:11.11]When I was thirty-five [02:14.03] [02:22.53]But now the days are short [02:23.75] [02:25.30]I'm in the autumn of the my year [02:27.62] [02:29.73]And I think of my life as vintage wine [02:32.92] [02:34.47]From fine old kegs [02:35.98] [02:37.91]From the brim to the dregs [02:39.34] [02:41.28]It poured sweet and clear [02:43.03] [02:45.33]It was a very good year [02:47.58] [02:49.20]I get rego [02:50.02] [02:51.01]As though it's yesterday [02:52.19] [02:52.94]Everything thinks so clear [02:55.23] [02:57.04]Memory that thing [02:57.72] [02:58.53]Time that pass away [03:00.46]It's my cheers year [03:02.29] [03:04.79]It's a good years [03:05.98] [03:07.73]I had some good years [03:09.47] [03:11.96]Some very very very very good years