At Seventeen-Hit Crew Masters

[ti:At Seventeen] [ar:Hit Crew Masters] [al:Essential Folk Music, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]At Seventeen - Hit Crew Masters [00:08.26]I learned the truth at seventeen [00:11.60] [00:12.34]That love was meant for beauty queens [00:15.57] [00:16.19]And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles [00:19.89] [00:20.66]Who married young and then retired [00:23.80] [00:27.21]The valentines I never knew [00:30.60] [00:31.60]The Friday night charades of youth [00:34.52] [00:35.75]Were spent on one more beautiful [00:38.38] [00:39.64]At seventeen I learned the truth [00:43.02] [00:46.03]And those of us with ravaged faces [00:50.51]Lacking in the social graces [00:53.98]Desperately remained at home [00:57.31]Inventing lovers on the phone [01:00.77] [01:01.35]Who called to say "Come dance with me" [01:04.53] [01:06.22]And murmured vague obscenities [01:08.56] [01:10.14]It isn't all it seems at seventeen [01:14.11] [01:16.53]A brown-eyed girl in hand-me-downs [01:19.67] [01:20.82]Whose name I never could pronounce [01:23.62] [01:24.47]Said "Pity please the ones who serve [01:27.32] [01:28.70]'Cause they only get what they deserve" [01:31.66] [01:35.03]And the rich relationed hometown queen [01:39.34]Marries into what she needs [01:42.35]With a guarantee of company [01:45.91] [01:46.78]And haven for the elderly [01:50.58] [01:54.14]Remember those who win the game [01:58.30]Lose the love they sought to gain [02:01.37] [02:01.88]In debentures of quality [02:04.97] [02:05.65]And dubious integrity [02:08.52] [02:09.43]Their small town eyes will gape at you [02:12.59] [02:13.70]In dull surprise when payment due [02:16.56] [02:17.90]Exceeds accounts received at seventeen [02:22.01] [02:31.98]To those of us who knew the pain [02:35.33] [02:36.52]Of valentines that never came [02:39.22] [02:40.56]And those whose names were never called [02:43.50] [02:44.43]When choosing sides for basketball [02:47.78] [02:50.75]It was long ago and far away [02:54.24] [02:54.99]The world was younger than today [02:58.18] [02:59.44]When dreams were all they gave for free [03:02.32] [03:03.29]To ugly duckling girls like me [03:07.38] [03:09.43]We all play the game and when we dare [03:13.79]To cheat ourselves at solitaire [03:17.19]Inventing lovers on the phone [03:21.00]Repenting other lives unknown [03:24.64]They call and say Come dance with me [03:28.26] [03:29.48]And murmur vague obscenities [03:32.28] [03:33.51]At ugly girls like me at seventeen