She Is Always Seventeen

[Intro]
She has no fear of failure
She's not bent with broken dreams
For the future's just beginning
When you're always seventeen

[Verse 1]
It was 1961 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

[Verse 2]
1963, white and black upon the land
She brought me to the monuments and made us all join hands
And scarcely six months later she held me through the night
When we heard of what had happened in that brutal Dallas light

[Chorus]
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 our 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

[Verse 3]
It was 1965 and we were marching once more
From the burning cities against a crazy war
Memphis, L.A. and Chicago, we bled through '68
'Til she took me up to Woodstock saying with love it's not too late

[Verse 4]
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

[Chorus]
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 our 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

[Verse 5]
1972, I'm at the end of my rope
But she was picketing the White House
Chanting, "The truth's the only hope"
In 1975 when the crooked king was gone
She was feeding starving children saying the dream must go on

[Chorus]
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 our 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