At Seventeen chords

At Seventeen

• C

       C                                              Dm  
I learned the truth at seventeen That love was meant for beauty queens  
     G7                                                                 C  
and high school girls with clear skinned smiles who married young and then retired  
          C                                       Dm    
The valentines I never knew, the friday nights, charades of youth   
       G7                                                             C  
were spent on one more beautiful At  seventeen I learned the truth  
  
  
      Eb                               Dm            G7  
And those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces  
    Cm7       Fm7                      Cm7                      Fm7  
Desp'ratly remained at home inventing lovers on the phone  
      Ab                   G7                 Cm7                              Fm7  
Who called and say "come dance with me" and murmured vague obscenities  
Dm7                          G7  
It isn't all it seems at seventeen  
   
   C                                                        Dm  
A brown eyed girl in hand-me-downs, whose name I never could pronounce said  
 G7                                                              C  
Pity, please, the ones who serve, they only get what they deserve.  
     C                                                        Dm  
The rich relationed home-town queen marries into what she needs  
      G7                                          C  
A guarantee of company and haven for the elderly"  
   
  Eb                             Dm7                 G7  
Remember those who win the game, lose the love they sought to gain  
      Cm7          Fm7         Cm7        Fm7  
In debentures of quality and dubious in tegrity  
        Ab                  G7            Cm7                 Cm7  
Their small town eyes will gape at you in dull surprise when payment due  
  Dm7                           G7  
exceeds accounts received at seventeen  
   
    C                                 Dm  
To those of us who know the pain of valentines that never came,  
      G7                                       C  
and those whose name were never called when choosing side at basketball   
    C                              Dm  
It was long ago and far away The world was younger than today  
      G7                                   C  
and dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me  
  
        Eb                                Dm7                 G7  
We all play the game and when we dare to cheat ourselves at solitaire  
   Cm7           Fm7              Cm7           Fm7  
Inventing lovers on the phone, repenting other lives unknown  
      Ab                 G7                  Cm7            Fm7  
that call and say "Come dance with me", and murmur vague obscenities  
Dm7                          G7     C     Cmaj7  
at ugly girls like me, at seventeen  
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by Anonimous | TGAcousticLessons

4/22/2014

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