VENTEEN - Janis Ian
Capo on 4th
Intro:
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I learned the truth at seven- teen
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That love was meant for beauty queens
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and high school girls with clear skinned smiles
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who married young and then re- tired
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The valen- tines I never knew,
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the friday nights, cha- rades of youth
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Were spent on one more beautiful
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At seven- teen I learned the truth
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And those of us with ravaged faces,
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lacking in the social graces
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Desp'ratly re- mained at home
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in- venting lovers on the phone
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Who called and say: "come dance with me"
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and murmured vague ob- scenities,
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It isn't all it seems
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at seventeen
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A brown eyed girl in hand-me- downs,
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whose name I never could pro- nounce
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said "Pity, please, the ones who serve,
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they only get what they de- serve.
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The rich re- lationed home-town queen
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marries into what she needs
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With a guarantee of company
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and haven for the elder- ly"
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Re- member those who win the game,
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lose the love they sought to gain
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In debentures of quality
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and dubious in- tegrity
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Their small town eyes will gape at you
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in dull surprise when payment due
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Ex- ceeds accounts received
D7/F#
at seventeen
Break:
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Dsus2/A - Am - E/A - Am7 -
D7/F#
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Am - D7/F# -
Gm - Cm
Gm - Cm
Eb - D - G*
Gm - Cm
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B|-----1----/-7p5-7p5| |0-3-3-/3-3---3-/3-3---/3-3--------3/
G|-0---0-7s5/-7p5-7p5| |4-4-4-/4-4-4-4-/4-4-4-/4-4--------4/ 2x
D|--2--2----/-7p5----| |5-5-5-/5-5-5-5-/5-5-5-/5-5--------5/
A|0--0-0----/5-------| |5-----/--------/------/------------/
E|----------/--------| |3-----/--------/------/------------/
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To those of us who know the pain
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of valen- tines that never came,
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and those whose name were never called
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when choosing sides at basket- ball
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It was long a- go and far a- way
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The world was younger than to- day
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and dreams were all they gave for free
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to ugly duckling girls like me
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We all play the game and when we dare
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to cheat ourselves at solitaire
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In- venting lovers on the phone,
Gm Cm
re- penting other lives unknown
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that call and say "Come dance with me",
Gm Cm
and murmur vague ob- scenities
Am7
at ugly girls like me,
D7/F#
at seventeen
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Bm7/G* 32023x
G 3200xx
Gmaj7 3240xx
Em/G 3220xx
G* 320xxx
Bm7/G 3202xx
Dsus2/A x0223x
E/A x0210x
Am7 x0201x
E* 0xxxxx
D7/F# 2x021x
Gm 35533x
Cm x35543
Eb x65343
D x54232
Bb6 xxx333
Cm6 xxx545
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