She Is Always Seventeen [Live 1975 Version]-Harry Chapin

[ti:She Is Always Seventeen (Live 1975 Version)] [ar:Harry Chapin] [al:Greatest Stories Live] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]She Is Always Seventeen [Live 1975 Version] - Harry Chapin [00:09.36]She has no fear of failure [00:12.97] [00:13.49]She's not bent with broken dreams [00:16.83] [00:18.05]For the future's just beginning [00:21.76] [00:22.38]When you're always seventeen [00:28.61] [00:36.04]It was nineteen sixty-one when [00:38.22]We went to Washington; [00:39.87] [00:40.41]She put her arms around me [00:42.05]And said "Camelot's begun " [00:44.18] [00:44.77]We listened to his visions of how [00:47.30]Our land should be; [00:48.63] [00:49.19]We gave him our hearts and minds [00:51.30]To send across the sea [00:52.90] [00:53.60]Nineteen sixty-three white and black [00:56.14]Upon the land; [00:57.20] [00:57.71]She brought me to the monuments [00:59.95]And made us all join hands [01:01.77] [01:02.30]And scarcely six months later she held [01:04.60]Me through the night [01:06.48]When we heard what had happened [01:08.39]In that brutal Dallas light [01:10.34] [01:10.85]Oh she is always seventeen; [01:15.08]She has a dream that she will lend us [01:17.21]And a love that we can borrow [01:19.41]There is so much joy inside her she [01:21.98]Will even share her sorrow; [01:23.82]She's our past our present [01:25.95]And our promise of tomorrow [01:28.23]Oh truly she's the only hope I've seen [01:32.74]And she is always seventeen [01:42.59] [01:46.42]It was nineteen sixty-five and [01:48.47]We were marching once more [01:50.47] [01:51.15]From the burning cities against a crazy war [01:54.99]Memphis L A and Chicago we [01:57.44]Bled through sixty-eight [01:59.40]Till she took me up to Woodstock [02:01.48]Saying with love it's not too late [02:03.46] [02:03.99]We started out the seventies living off the land; [02:07.98]She was sowing seeds in Denver [02:09.97]Trying to make me understand [02:12.53]That mankind is woman and woman is man [02:16.79]And until we free each other we [02:19.11]Cannot free the land [02:21.20]Oh she is always seventeen; [02:25.23]She has a dream that she will lend us [02:27.54]And a love that we can borrow [02:29.65]There is so much joy inside her [02:32.04]She will even share her sorrow; [02:34.15]She's our past our present [02:36.32]And our promise of tomorrow [02:38.39]Oh truly she's the only hope I've seen [02:43.12]And she is always seventeen [02:54.26] [02:56.92]Nineteen seventy-two [02:57.28] [02:58.16]I'm at the end of my rope [03:00.46]But she was picketing the [03:01.68]White House chanting [03:02.52]"The truth's the only hope " [03:04.44] [03:05.01]In nineteen seventy-five when [03:06.84]The crooked king was gone [03:09.26]She was feeding starving children [03:11.17]Saying the dream must go on [03:13.18] [03:13.83]She is always seventeen; [03:17.70]She has a dream that she will lend [03:19.43]Us and a love that we can borrow [03:22.09]There is so much joy inside her [03:24.53]She will even share her sorrow; [03:26.36]She's our past our present [03:28.43]And our promise of tomorrow [03:30.64]Oh truly she's the only hope I've seen [03:34.93]And she is always seventeen