O ano de 2011 está chegando ao fim. Em menos de 72 horas, terá terminado.

Para mim, foi um ano muito bom. Pessoal e profissionalmente, não tenho nada que reclamar: foi um ano dos melhores.

Por isso, quero lhes deixar um presente: Frank Sinatra cantando “It was a very good year”. Há vários clips dele cantando essa música no YouTube. Escolhi o link abaixo, que tem um clip dele gravando a música, com narração do incomparável Walter Cronkite. É meio longo, quase dez minutos. Mas, na minha avaliação, cada segundo vale a pena.

Assim, se você gosta de boa música e/ou simplesmente gosta da voz de Sinatra, não deixe de ver.

Depois do link, coloco a letra da música, e um comentário, em Inglês, retirado da Wikipedia. Se você não lê Inglês, procure no Google: há traduções disponíveis.

Aqui vai.

It Was a Very Good Year

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 stairs 

With perfumed hair 

That 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

Their chauffeurs would drive

When I was thirty-five.



But now the days are short,
I’m in the autumn of my years 

And I think of my life
As vintage wine 

From fine old kegs

From the brim to the dregs

It poured sweet and clear 

It was a very good year.

Yes, indeed.

“‘It Was a Very Good Year’ is a song composed by Ervin Drake in 1961 for and originally recorded by Bob Shane of The Kingston Trio[1][2] and subsequently made famous by Frank Sinatra‘s version in D-minor, which won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male in 1966. Gordon Jenkins was awarded Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for the Sinatra version. This single peaked at #28 on the U.S. pop chart and became Sinatra’s first #1 single on the Easy Listening.[3] The song can be found on Sinatra’s 1965 album September of My Years. A live, stripped-down performance is featured on his Sinatra at the Sands album.” (Wikipedia)

Espero que 2012 seja,  para você (e, naturalmente, para mim também), ainda melhor do que 2011 foi para mim.

Em São Paulo, 29 de Dezembro de 2011.