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At Seventeen

Ray Conniff - vocal solo by Jackie Ward

1976

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Top 40

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Cover van Janis Ian - At Seventeen (1975).

Titel A-kant

At Seventeen

Lengte A-kant

4:26

Componist(en) A-kant

J. Ian

Titel B-kant

[Ray Conniff] Theme From "Paper Tiger" (My Little Friend)

Lengte B-kant

2:36

Componist(en) B-kant

R. Budd, S. Cahn

Platenlabel

CBS

Catalogusnr

CBS 3923

Hoogste positie UK

-

Hoogste positie US

-

Album

Love Will Keep Us Together

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I learned the truth at seventeen,
That love was meant for beauty queens.
In high school, girls with clear-skin smiles,
Who married young and then retired.

The Valentines I never knew.
The Friday night charades of youth,
Were spent on one more beautiful.
At seventeen I learned the truth.

And those of us with ravaged faces,
Lacking in the social graces,
Desperately remained at home,
Inventing lovers on the phone.
Who called to say come dance with me.
And murmured vague obscenities.
It isn't all it seems,
At seventeen.

A brown-eyed girl in hand-me-downs.
Whose name I never could pronounce,
Said, "Pity, please, the ones who serve,
They only get what they deserve."

And the rich-relationed, hometown queen,
Marries into what she needs.
With a guarantee of company,
And haven for the elderly.

Remember those who win the game,
Lose the love they sought to gain.
In debentures of quality,
And dubious integrity.
The small-town eyes will gape at you,
In dull surprise, when payment due,
Exceeds accounts received.
At seventeen.

[Instrumental break.]

To those of us who knew the pain,
Of Valentines that never came.
And those whose names were never called,
When choosing sides for basketball.

It was long ago and far away,
The world was younger than today.
And dreams were all they gave for free,
To ugly-duckling girls like me.

We all play the game and when we dare,
To cheat ourselves at solitaire.
Inventing lovers on the phone,
Repenting other lives unknown,
That call and say, come dance with me,
An' murmur vague obscenities,
At ugly girls like me,
At seventeen.

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