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COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Ervin Drake
Composer
Victor Vanacore
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PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
John Burk
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Terry Howard
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Herbert Waltl
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Robert Fernandez
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Mark Fleming
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Seth Presant
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Gregg Dennen
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Al Schmitt
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Steve Genewick
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Doug Sax
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Robert Hadley
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Lyrics
When I was seventeen
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
We'd hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen
When I was twenty-one
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair
And it came undone
When I was twenty-one
When I was thirty-five
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls of independent means
We'd ride in limousines
And their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five
But now the days grow short
I'm in the autumn of the years
And I think of my life as vintage wine from fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year
Writer(s): Ervin Drake
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