She Is Always Seventeen Chords by Harry Chapin

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[F] She has no [C] fear of failure
She's [F] not benched with broken [G] _ dreams
[F] For the future's just [C] beginning _
[F] When you're _ always
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ Seventeen _ _ _ _ _
_ It _ _ _ _ _ was 1961
[F] When we went to Washington
[G] She put her arms around me [E] and said,
Shyamalan's [A] begun
We listened to his visions
[F] Of how our land should be
[G] Gave him our hearts and [E] minds
To send across the sea [A] _ 1963
[F] White and black upon the land
[G] She brought me to the monuments
[E] And made us all join hands
[A] Scarcely six months later
[F] She held me to the [G] night
When we heard of what had happened
In [E] that brutal Dallas light
[F] Oh, she _ [Em] _ is always seventeen
She [F] has a dream [C] that she will end us
[D] And a love that we [Em] can borrow
There [F] is so much joy [C] inside her
She [D] will even share [Em] our sorrow
[F] She's our past, [Em] our present
And [D] our promise of [G] tomorrow [Em] Oh, [D] truly
[C] She's the only hope I've seen
And [Am] she is always
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[A] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
Seventeen
It [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ was 1965
And we [F] were marching once more
[G] From the burning [E] city
Against the crazy war
[A] Memphis, L.A. and Chicago
[F] We fled through 68
Till she [G] took me out to Woodstock
[E] Saying, with love, it's not too [A] late
We started out the [F] 70s
Living off the land
[Em] She was sowing seeds in Denver
[E] Trying to make them understand
[A] That mankind is woman
[F] And woman is man
[G] And until we free each other
[E] We cannot free the land
[F] Oh, she [Em] is always seventeen
She [C] has a dream that she [Em] will end us
[D] And a love that we [Em] can borrow
There [F] is so much [Em] joy inside her
[D] She will even share [Em] our sorrow
[F] She's our past, [Em] our present
[D] And our promise of [G] tomorrow [Em] Oh, [D] truly
[C] She's the only hope I've [B] seen
And [F] she is always
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ Seventeen _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ 1972
_ _ _ I'm [F] at the end of my rope
But [G] she was bigoted in the White House
Chanting [E] the truth's the only [A] hope In 1975
When [F] the crooked king was gone
She [G] was feeding starving children
[E] Saying the dream must go [F] on
She [C] [G] is [Em] always seventeen
[Am] She has a dream that [C] she will end [D] us
And a love that [Am] we can borrow
[F] There is so much [Em] joy inside her
[D] She will even [G] share our sorrow
[F] She's our past, [Em] our present
[D] And our promise [G] of [Bm] tomorrow [E] Oh, _ [D] truly
[C] She's the only hope I've seen
[B] And she [F] is _ _ [D] always
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_ [Em] Seventeen
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