She Was Only Seventeen Chords & Lyrics by Marty Robbins
She Was Only Seventeen
guitar chords lyrics
She Was Only Seventeen:Marty Robbins.
#27 on BB Hot 100 on COLUMBIA Records
in 1958.
INTRO:
G C Am F G
Seventeen..wah-ooo-wah-ooo..and he was one year more.
G C Am F G
Seventeen..wah-ooo-wah-ooo..and he, the girl, adored.
#1.
C Am F G
She was only seventeen and he was one year more.
C Am F
She loved him with all her heart and he, the girl
G
adored.
C C7 F
But all their friends believed they were too young
Fm
to know the score..
C Am F G C
cause she was only seventeen and he was one year more.
#2.
C Am F G C
Are they old enough to know if love will last for life?
C Am F G C
Isn't he too young to be a husband, her a wife?
C C7 F Fm
Within the past I bet it's happened more than once before.
C Am F G C
When someone else was seventeen, another, one year more.
BRIDGE:
G D G
Do we have the right to question love that seems so strong?
G D G G7
As long as God has no objections there can be no wrong.
#3.
C Am F G
Let us be the first to wish them all the very best.
C Am F G
Let us hope their love is strong enough to meet the test.
C C7 F Fm
Cause like I say, I bet it's happened more than once before.
C Am F G C
When someone else was seventeen, another, one year more.
BRIDGE:
G D G
Do we have the right to question love that seems so strong?
G D G G7
As long as God has no objections there can be no wrong.
#4.
C Am F G
Let us be the first to wish them all the very best.
C Am F G
Let us hope their love is strong enough to meet the test.
C C7 F Fm
Cause like I say, I bet it's happened more than once before.
C Am F G C
When someone else was seventeen, another, one year more.
OUTRO:
C F G7 C
Wah-ooo-wah-(seventeen)..wah-wah-wah.
A fifties smash from Kraziekhat.
