She Is Always Seventeen

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She has no fear of failure
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She's not bent with broken dreams
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For the future's just beginning
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When you're always                seventeen
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It was nineteen sixty one when we went to Washington
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She put her arms around me and said Camelot's begun
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We listened to his visions of how our land should be
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We gave him our hearts and minds to send across the sea

[Verse 2]
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Nineteen sixty three white and black upon the land
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She brought me to the monuments and made us all join hands
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Scarcely six months later she held me through the night
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When we heard of what had happened in that brutal Dallas light

[Chorus]
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Oh, she   is     always seventeen
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She has a dream the she will lend us
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And a love that we can borrow
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There is so much joy inside her
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She will even share our sorrow
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She's our past, our present, and our promise of tomorrow
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Oh,    truly she's the only hope I've seen
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And she is always              seventeen

[Verse 3]
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It was nineteen sixty five and we were marching once more
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From the burning cities against the crazy war
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Memphis, L.A. and Chicago we bled through sixty eight
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'Till she took me up to Woodstock saying with love it's not too late
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We started out the seventies living off the land
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She was sowing seeds in Denver trying to make me understand
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That mankind is woman and woman is man
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And until se free each other we can not free the land

[Chorus]
    Fmaj7 Cmaj7  G      Bm
Oh, she   is     always seventeen
          Fmaj7              Cmaj7
She has a dream the she will lend us
      D                Em
And a love that we can borrow
         Fmaj7         Cmaj7
There is so much joy inside her
         D              Em
She will even share our sorrow
          Fmaj7     Cmaj7            D            G
She's our past, our present, and our promise of tomorrow
Bm/F#  Em Bm/D         Cmaj7
Oh,    truly she's the only hope I've seen
          Fmaj7  D   Bm   Am11
And she is always              seventeen

[Verse 4]
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Nineteen seventy two, I'm at the end of my rope
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But she was picketing the White House chanting the truth's the only hope
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In nineteen seventy five when the crooked king was gone
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She was feeding starving children saying the dream must go on

[Chorus]
    Fmaj7 Cmaj7  G      Bm
Oh, she   is     always seventeen
          Fmaj7              Cmaj7
She has a dream the she will lend us
      D                Em
And a love that we can borrow
         Fmaj7         Cmaj7
There is so much joy inside her
         D              Em
She will even share our sorrow
          Fmaj7     Cmaj7            D            G
She's our past, our present, and our promise of tomorrow
Bm/F#  Em Bm/D         Cmaj7
Oh,    truly she's the only hope I've seen
          Fmaj7  D   Bm   Am11
And she is always              seventeen