Tonart: C major
Verse 1
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I learned the truth at seventeen,
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that love was meant for beauty queens
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And high school girls with clear—skinned smiles
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who married young and then retired
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The valentines I never knew, the Friday nights,
charades of youth
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Were spent on one more beautiful,
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at seventeen I learned the truth
Verse 2
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And those of us with ravaged faces,
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G
lacking in the social graces
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Desperately remained at home in
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venting lovers on the phone
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Who called and say "Come dance with me"
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and murmured vague obscenities
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G
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It isn't all it seems at seventeen
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Verse 3
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Dm
A brown—eyed girl in hand—me—downs, whose
name I never could pronounce said
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"Pity, please, the ones who serve,
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they only get what they deserve
The rich relationed home—town queen
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marries into what she needs
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A guarantee of company
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and haven for the elderly"
Verse 4
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Remember those who win the game,
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lose the love they sought to gain
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F
Cm
In debentures of quality and
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G
Their small town eyes will gape at you
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in dull surprise when payment due
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G
Exceeds accounts received at
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seventeen
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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Dm
To those of us who know the pain of
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valentines that nev er came
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And those whose names were never
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called when choosing side at basketball
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C
It was long ago and far away,
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the world was younger than today
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And dreams were all they gave
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for free to ugly duckling girls like me
Verse 6
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We all play the game and when we dare
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G
to cheat ourselves at solitaire
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Inventing lovers on the phone,
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repenting other lives unknown
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That call and say "Come dance with me",
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and murmur vague obscenities
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At ugly girls like me, at seventeen
Outro 1
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