Tonart: C major
Verse 1
C
I learned the truth at seventeen
Dm
That love was meant for beauty queens
G
And high school girls with
clear -skinned smiles
C
Who married young and then retired
G
C
The valentines I never knew
Dm
The friday night charades of youth
G
Were spent on one more beautiful
C
At seventeen I learned the truth
Eb
And those of us with ravaged faces
Dm
G
Lacking in the social graces
Cm
Fm
Desperately remained at home
Cm
Fm
Inventing lovers on the phone
Ab
G
Who called to say, come dance with me
Cm
Fm
Ab
An d murmured vague obscenities
Dm
G
It isn't all it seems, it's seventeen
C
A brown -eyed girl in hand -me -downs
Dm
Whose name I never could pronounce
G
Said, pity please the ones who serve
C
They only get what they deserve
G
C
In the rich relationed hometown queen
Dm
Mar ries into what she needs
G
With a guarantee of company
C
And haven for the elderly
Eb
Remember those who win the game,
Dm
G
lose the love they sought to gain
Cm
Fm
In debentures of quality
Cm
Fm
and dubious integrity
Ab
G
The small -town eyes will gape
Cm
at you in dull surprise
Fm
Ab
Dm
G
When payment due exceeds accounts received at 17
Interlude 1
G
C
Dm
G
C
Eb
Dm
G
Cm
Fm
Cm
Fm
Ab
G
Cm
Fm
Dm
G
C
Verse 2
C
To those of us who knew the pain
Dm
Of valentines that never came
were never called
C
When choosing sides for basketball
G
It was long ago and far away
C
Dm
The world was younger than today
G
And dreams were all they gave for free
C
To ugly duckling girls like me
Eb
Dm
We all play the game when we dare to cheat ourselves,
Cm
Ab
Bbsus4
Inventing lovers on the phone,
Ab
Fm
Cm
Fm
repenting other lives unknown
Cm
Fm
Murmur vague obscenities
Dm
With ugly girls like
Outro 1
G
C
C
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