She Is Always Seventeen
Harry Chapin
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Fmaj7 Cmaj7 She has no fear of failureFmaj7 G She's not bent with broken dreamsFmaj7 Cmaj7 For the future's just beginningFmaj7 D Bm When you're alwaysAm11 seventeenA It was nineteen sixty one when weFmaj7 went to WashingtonG She put her arms around me and saidE7 Camelot's begunA We listened to his visions of howFmaj7 our land should beG We gave him our hearts and minds toE7 send across the sea [Verse 2]A Nineteen sixty three white and blackFmaj7 upon the landG She brought me to the monuments andE7 made us all join handsA Scarcely six months later she heldFmaj7 me through the nightG When we heard of what had happenedE7 in that brutal Dallas light [Chorus]Fmaj7 Cmaj7 G Bm Oh, she is always seventeenFmaj7 Cmaj7 She has a dream the she will lend usD Em And a love that we can borrowFmaj7 Cmaj7 There is so much joy inside herD Em She will even share our sorrowContinues after the adFmaj7 Cmaj7 She's our past, our present, andD G our promise of tomorrowBm/F# Em Bm/D Cmaj7 Oh, truly she's the only hope I've seenFmaj7 D Bm Am11 And she is always seventeen [Verse 3]A It was nineteen sixty five and weFmaj7 were marching once moreG E7 From the burning cities against the crazy warA Fmaj7 Memphis, L.A. and Chicago we bled through sixty eightG 'Till she took me up to WoodstockE7 saying with love it's not too lateA Fmaj7 We started out the seventies living off the landG She was sowing seeds in DenverE7 trying to make me understandA Fmaj7 That mankind is woman and woman is manG E7 And until se free each other we can not free the land [Chorus]Fmaj7 Cmaj7 G Bm Oh, she is always seventeenFmaj7 Cmaj7 She has a dream the she will lend usD Em And a love that we can borrowFmaj7 Cmaj7 There is so much joy inside herD Em She will even share our sorrowFmaj7 Cmaj7 She's our past, our present, andD G our promise of tomorrowBm/F# Em Bm/D Cmaj7 Oh, truly she's the only hope I've seenFmaj7 D Bm Am11 And she is always seventeen [Verse 4]A Nineteen seventy two, I'm at theFmaj7 end of my ropeG But she was picketing the WhiteE7 House chanting the truth's the only hopeA In nineteen seventy five when theFmaj7 crooked king was goneG She was feeding starving childrenE7 saying the dream must go on [Chorus]Fmaj7 Cmaj7 G Bm Oh, she is always seventeenFmaj7 Cmaj7 She has a dream the she will lend usD Em And a love that we can borrowFmaj7 Cmaj7 There is so much joy inside herD Em She will even share our sorrowFmaj7 Cmaj7 She's our past, our present, andD G our promise of tomorrowBm/F# Em Bm/D Cmaj7 Oh, truly she's the only hope I've seenFmaj7 D Bm Am11 And she is always seventeen