At Seventeen chords by Ian Janis

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Verse 1:

  A augmentedA
I learned the truth at seventeen
   B minorBm
That love was meant for beauty queens
  E MajorE
And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles
  A augmentedA
Who married young and then retired
  A augmentedA
The valentines I never knew
  B minorBm
The Friday night charades of youth
   E MajorE
Were spent on one more beautiful
  A augmentedA
At seventeen I learned the truth

Chorus:
   C majorC
And those of us with ravaged faces
B minorBm       E MajorE
Lacking in the social graces
A minorAm       DmDm
Desperately remained at home
A minorAm        DmDm
Inventing lovers on the phone
  FF          E MajorE
Who called to say, "Come dance with me"
  A minorAm        DmDm
And murmured vague obscenities
  B minorBm
It isn't all it seems
  E MajorE
At seventeen


Verse 2:
  A augmentedA
A majorA brown-eyed girl in hand-me-downs
    B minorBm
Whose name I never could pronounce
    E MajorE
Said, "Pity, please, the ones who serve
   A augmentedA
They only get what they deserve"
    A augmentedA
And the rich-relationed hometown queen
B minorBm
Marries into what she needs
    E MajorE
With a guarantee of company
  A augmentedA
And haven for the elderly

Chorus:
 C majorC
Remember those who win the game
DmDm          E MajorE
Lose the love they sought to gain
 A minorAm       DmDm
In debentures of quality
  A minorAm      DmDm
And dubious integrity
   FF          E MajorE
Their small town eyes will gape at you
  A minorAm          DmDm
In dull surprise when payment due
 B minorBm
Exceeds accounts received
  E MajorE
At seventeen


Verse 3:
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To those of us who knew the pain
  B minorBm
Of valentines that never came
  E MajorE
And those whose names were never called
   A augmentedA
When choosing sides for basketball
   A augmentedA
It was long ago and far away
  B minorBm
The world was younger than today
   E MajorE
When dreams were all they gave for free
  A augmentedA
To ugly duckling girls like me

Chorus:
   C majorC
We all play the game and when we dare
 B minorBm
To cheat ourselves at solitaire
   A minorAm     DmDm
Inventing lovers on the phone
  A minorAm      DmDm
Repenting other lives unknown
  FF          E MajorE
They call and say, "Come dance with me"
 A minorAm        DmDm
And murmur vague obscenities
  B minorBm
At ugly girls like me
   E MajorE
At seventeen

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