Chord Chart - Janis Ian - At Seventeen Page 2

Re-member, those who win the game, lose the love they sought to gain

In debentures of quality, and dubious in-tegrity

Their small-town eyes will gape at you,

in dull surprise,

when payment due

Exceeds accounts received, at seventeen

Interlude: First 2 lines of verse

To those of us who knew the pain of valentines that never came

(x2)

And those whose names were never called, when choosing sides for basket-ball

It was long ago, and far away, the world was younger than today

(x2)

And dreams were all they gave, for free,

to ugly duckling girls like me

We all play the game, and when we dare to cheat ourselves at solitaire,

In-venting lovers on the phone, re-penting other lives unknown

That call and say, "Come dance with me,"

and murmur vague ob-scenities

At ugly girls like me, at seventeen

Outro: Cadd9 C CMA7 C6 Cadd9

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