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Seventeen by Jim Bob
Seventeen
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
[Verse 1]
C Em
There's nothing on the cards, seventeen
Dm
Your future's knackered
G
Before it's even happened
C Em
It's written in the stars, seventeen
Dm G
Venus, Mars Jupiter and Saturn
[Verse 2]
C Am Dm
Stay in bed, seventeen
G C
The captain hasn't picked you for the team
Am Dm
You're not cute like before
G C
Nobody wants you any more
[Verse 3]
C Am Dm
You're a NEET, sonny Jim
G C
An abbreviated acronym
Am Dm
In the book of modern slang
G
Of Generation Boomerang
[Verse 4]
C Em
I saw it on the news, seventeen
Dm
From inside a cupboard
G
Scientists discovered
C Em
How you were born to lose, seventeen
Dm
A gymslip mother
G
Waving to her brother
[Verse 5]
C Am Dm
Who was just twenty-one
G C
Standing in the desert with a gun
C Am Dm
He won't see twenty-two
G
Well, what are you supposed to do
[Verse 6]
C Em
You'll lose everything, seventeen
Dm G
Your looks and your figure
Dm
You'll be uglier and bigger
C Em Dm
Your Jonas Brothers ring, seventeen
Dm
Sold downriver
G
To the highest bidder
[Verse 7]
C Am Dm
Who'll be fat, forty-five
G
Bald and barely still alive
C Am Dm
With the right pounds and pence
G
To buy the symbol of your innocence
[Verse 8]
C Em
Do you believe in stars, seventeen
Dm
God's will and kismet
G
Fortune and destiny
C Em
Or are Jupiter and Mars, seventeen
Dm
Just huge balls of plasma
G Am
Only held together by gravity
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