"It Was a Very Good Year" — the autobiography of a life measured in vintages.
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
Then 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 their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five
But now the days grow short, I'm in the autumn of the year
And now 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
It was a mess of good years
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- Written by Ervin Drake in 1961 for The Kingston Trio. Sinatra's 1965 recording won the Grammy for Best Male Vocal Performance. Gordon Jenkins' arrangement builds from solo to full orchestra as the narrator ages.