Tonalidad: C major
Verse 1
C
I learned the truth at seventeen,
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that love was meant for beauty queens
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Dm
G
And high school girls with clear—skinned smiles
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G
C
who married young and then retired
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C
Dm
The valentines I never knew, the Friday nights,
charades of youth
G
Were spent on one more beautiful,
Verse 2
C
Eb
And those of us with ravaged faces,
Dm
G
lacking in the social graces
Cm
F
Desperately remained at home in
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F
venting lovers on the phone
Ab
G
Who called and say "Come dance with me"
Cm
F
and murmured vague obscenities
Dm
G
Ddim
It isn't all it seems at seventeen
G
Verse 3
C
Dm
A brown—eyed girl in hand—me—downs, whose
name I never could pronounce said
G
Dm
G
"Pity, please, the ones who serve,
The rich relationed home—town queen
G
Dm
A guarantee of company
Verse 4
C
Eb
Remember those who win the game,
Dm
G
lose the love they sought to gain
Cm
F
Cm
In debentures of quality and
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G
Their small town eyes will gape at you
Cm
F
in dull surprise when payment due
Dm
G
Exceeds accounts received at
Ddim
Dm
seventeen
Interlude 1
G
C
Dm
G
Verse 5
C
Dm
To those of us who know the pain of
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valentines that nev er came
C
called when choosing side at basketball
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C
It was long ago and far away,
Dm
the world was younger than today
C
Dm
G
And dreams were all they gave
C
for free to ugly duckling girls like me
Verse 6
Eb
We all play the game and when we dare
Dm
G
to cheat ourselves at solitaire
Cm
F
Inventing lovers on the phone,
Cm
F
repenting other lives unknown
Ab
G
That call and say "Come dance with me",
Cm
F
and murmur vague obscenities
Dm
Ddim
Dm
G
At ugly girls like me, at seventeen
Outro 1
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C
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