Fmaj7 Cmaj7 She has no fear of failure Fmaj7 G She's not bent with broken dreams Fmaj7 Cmaj7 For the future's just beginning Fmaj7 D Bm Am11 When you're always seventeen A Fmaj7 It was nineteen sixty one when we went to Washington G E7 She put her arms around me and said Camelot's begun A Fmaj7 We listened to his visions of how our land should be G E7 We gave him our hearts and minds to send across the sea [Verse 2] A Fmaj7 Nineteen sixty three white and black upon the land G E7 She brought me to the monuments and made us all join hands A Fmaj7 Scarcely six months later she held me through the night G E7 When we heard of what had happened in that brutal Dallas light [Chorus] Fmaj7 Cmaj7 G Bm Oh, she is always seventeen Fmaj7 Cmaj7 She has a dream the she will lend us D Em And a love that we can borrow Fmaj7 Cmaj7 There is so much joy inside her D Em She will even share our sorrow Fmaj7 Cmaj7 D G She's our past, our present, and our promise of tomorrow Bm/F# Em Bm/D Cmaj7 Oh, truly she's the only hope I've seen Fmaj7 D Bm Am11 And she is always seventeen [Verse 3] A Fmaj7 It was nineteen sixty five and we were marching once more G E7 From the burning cities against the crazy war A Fmaj7 Memphis, L.A. and Chicago we bled through sixty eight G E7 'Till she took me up to Woodstock saying with love it's not too late A Fmaj7 We started out the seventies living off the land G E7 She was sowing seeds in Denver trying to make me understand A Fmaj7 That mankind is woman and woman is man G E7 And until se free each other we can not free the land [Chorus] Fmaj7 Cmaj7 G Bm Oh, she is always seventeen Fmaj7 Cmaj7 She has a dream the she will lend us D Em And a love that we can borrow Fmaj7 Cmaj7 There is so much joy inside her D Em She will even share our sorrow Fmaj7 Cmaj7 D G She's our past, our present, and our promise of tomorrow Bm/F# Em Bm/D Cmaj7 Oh, truly she's the only hope I've seen Fmaj7 D Bm Am11 And she is always seventeen [Verse 4] A Fmaj7 Nineteen seventy two, I'm at the end of my rope G E7 But she was picketing the White House chanting the truth's the only hope A Fmaj7 In nineteen seventy five when the crooked king was gone G E7 She was feeding starving children saying the dream must go on [Chorus] Fmaj7 Cmaj7 G Bm Oh, she is always seventeen Fmaj7 Cmaj7 She has a dream the she will lend us D Em And a love that we can borrow Fmaj7 Cmaj7 There is so much joy inside her D Em She will even share our sorrow Fmaj7 Cmaj7 D G She's our past, our present, and our promise of tomorrow Bm/F# Em Bm/D Cmaj7 Oh, truly she's the only hope I've seen Fmaj7 D Bm Am11 And she is always seventeen