Chord Chart - Janis Ian - At Seventeen

AT SEVENTEEN

-Janis Ian

Intro:

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I learned the truth at seven-teen, that love was meant for beauty queens

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And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles, who married young and then re-tired

The val - entines I never knew, the Friday night cha-rades of youth

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Were spent on one more beauti -ful, at seven-teen I learned the truth

And those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces

Desperately re-mained at home, in-venting lovers on the phone,

Who called to say, "Come dance with me,"

and murmured vague ob-scenities

It isn't all it seems, at seventeen

A brown-eyed girl in hand - me downs, whose name I never could pronounce

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Said, "Pity please the ones who serve, they only get what they de-serve"

The rich-relationed hometown queen marries into what she needs

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With a guarantee of compa-ny, and haven for the elder - ly

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