She Is Always Seventeen Lyrics - Harry Chapin

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 

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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 

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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,? A.C.A.?