Chord Chart - Janis Ian - At Seventeen Page 3
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Intro:
Cadd9 C
CMA7 C
(X2)
Cadd9 C
CMA7 C
Dm7
A+
Dm7
I learned the truth at seven-teen, that love was meant for beauty queens
G7
G7+
G7
Cadd9
C
CMA7
C6
(x2)
And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles, who married young and then re-tired
Cadd9 C
CMA7 C
Dm7
A+
Dm7
The va - lentines I never knew, the Friday night cha-rades of youth
G7
G7sus G7
Cadd9 C
CMA7 C
(x2)
Were spent on one more beauti-ful, at seven-teen I learned the truth
Eb
Ebsus
Eb
Dm7
G7
And those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces
Cm
Fm
Cm
Fm
Desperately re-mained at home, in-venting lovers on the phone,
AbMA7
G7
Cm
Fm
Who called to say, "Come dance with me,"
and murmured vague ob-scenities
Dm7
G7
G7sus G7
It isn't all it seems, at seventeen
Cadd9 C
CMA7 C
Dm7
A+
Dm7
A brown-eyed girl in hand-me downs, whose name I never could pronounce
G7
G7+
G7
Cadd9 C
CMA7
C6
(x2)
Said, "Pity please the ones who serve, they only get what they de-serve"
Cadd9 C
CMA7
C
Dm7
A+
Dm7
The rich - relationed hometown queen marries into what she needs
G7
G7sus G7
Cadd9 C
CMA7 C
(x2)
With a guarantee of compa -ny, and haven for the elder - ly
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