At Seventeen Chords by Jann Arden

_ _ _ I _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [C] _
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[G] learned the truth at [C] 17 [D] _
That [D] love was meant for beauty queens
[G] And high school [Dm] girls with clear-skinned [G]
smiles Who married young and then [C] retired _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The _ [C] _ Valentines I never [G] knew [D] The Friday night charades of youth
[Dm] Were spent on [Dm] ones more beautiful _
[C] At 17 [C] I learned the truth
_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh, [Eb] but those of us with our ravaged [Dm] faces Lacking in the [G] social crazes
[Cm] _ Desperately _ [Fm] remained at home [C] _ Inventing lovers [Fm] on [Ab] the phone
Call to say, come [G] dance with me [Cm] _ Murmur [Fm] vague _ obscenities
[Dm] It isn't all it seems At [D] _ 17
[G] A _ _ _
_ [C] brown-eyed girl in hand-me-downs [D] Whose name I never could pronounce
[G] _ Pity please [D] the ones who serve They only get [C] what they _ deserve
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
The rich _ -relationed hometown queen _
[D] _ Married into what she needs
A guarantee [Dm] of company And [C] _ haven for the _ _ elderly _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] Remember _ those who win the game [Dm] Lose the love [G] they sought to gain
[Cm] In debaters [Fm] of quality [Cm] And dubious _ [Fm] integrity
[Ab] _ _
Small town eyes [G] will gape at you [Cm] In dull surprise [Fm] for pain and doom
[Dm] _ It isn't all it seems _ At [G] 17
_ _ To _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ those of [C] us who know the pain [D] Of _ Valentines that never came
[Dm] And [D] those whose names were never [G] called _ When choosing sides [C] for basketball
It _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[C] was long ago and far away [D] The world was younger than today
[Dm] _ [G] Dreams were all they gave for free _ Ugly [C] duckling girls _ _ like me
_ We _ [Eb] all play the game And [Bb] when we dare
[Dm] To cheat ourselves, let's [G] _ solitaire [Cm] _ Inventing lovers [Fm] on the phone _
_ Inventing other [Fm] lives unknown _
[Ab] Call and say, come [G] dance with [Cm] me
Murmur [Fm] vague _ obscenities [Dm] _ At ugly girls like me [Gm] At 17
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _