Harry Chapin She Is Always Seventeen Lyrics

She Is Always Seventeen Lyrics

She has no fear of failure, she's not bent with broken dreams.

For the
future's just beginning when you're always seventeen



It was
nineteen sixty-one when we went to Washington;

she put her arms around me
and said, "Camelot's begun."

We listened to his visions of how our land
should be;

we gave him our hearts and minds to send across the sea.

Nineteen sixty-three, white and black upon the land;

she brought me to
the monuments and made us all join hands.

And scarcely six months later
she held me through the night

when we heard what had happened in that
brutal Dallas light.



Oh, she is always seventeen;

she has a
dream that she will lend us and a love that we can borrow.

There is so
much joy inside her she will even share her sorrow;

she's our past, our
present, and our promise of tomorrow.

Oh, truly she's the only hope I've
seen, and she is always seventeen.



It was nineteen sixty-five and
we were marching once more

from the burning cities against a crazy
war.

Memphis, L.A. and Chicago we bled through sixty-eight

till she
took me up to Woodstock saying with love it's not too late.

We started out
the seventies living off the land;

she was sowing seeds in Denver trying
to make me understand

that mankind is woman and woman is man,

and
until we free each other we cannot free the land.



Oh, she is
always seventeen;

she has a dream that she will lend us and a love that
we can borrow.

There is so much joy inside her she will even share her
sorrow;

she's our past, our present, and our promise of tomorrow.

Oh, truly she's the only hope I've seen, and she is always seventeen.



Nineteen seventy-two, I'm at the end of my rope,

but she was
picketing the White House chanting,-aca