Julie Andrews & Irwin Kostal
Cast of The Sound of Music
Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Marni Nixon, & Portia Nelson
Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Marni Nixon, & Portia Nelson
Julie Andrews
Dan Truhitte & Charmian Carr
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews & Nicholas Hammond & Kym Karath & Heather Menzies & Duane Chase & Debbie Turner & Charmian Carr & Angela Cartwright
Charmain Carr, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, Kvm Karath & Bill Lee
Julie Andrews, Charmian Carr, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner & Kym Karath
Angela Cartwright, Nicholas Hammond, Kym Karath, Duane Chase, Charmian Carr, Heather Menzies, & Debbie Turner
Margery McKay
Julie Andrews & Bill Lee
Cast of The Sound of Music
Julie Andrews, Bill Lee, Charmian Carr, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner & Kym Karath
Cast of The Sound of Music
This song is sung between Liesl, a 16-year-old just beginning to face the world for the first time on her own, and Rolf, a boy who is one year older than her. Rolf takes it upon himself to teach her that she’s unprepared and offers himself, someone “older and wiser,” that she can depend on.
The lyri...
[ROLF]
You wait, little girl, on an empty stage
For fate to turn the light on
Your life, little girl, is an empty page
That men will want to write on
[LIESL]
To write on
[ROLF]
You are sixteen going on seventeen
Baby, it's time to think
Better beware, be canny and careful
Baby, you're on the brink
You are sixteen going on seventeen
Fellows will fall in line
Eager young lads and roués and cads
Will offer you food and wine
Totally unprepared are you
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared are you
Of things beyond your ken
You need someone older and wiser
Telling you what to do
I am seventeen going on eighteen
I'll take care of you
[Interlude]
[LIESL]
I am sixteen going on seventeen
I know that I'm naïve
Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet
And willingly I believe
I am sixteen going on seventeen
Innocent as a rose
Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies
What do I know of those?
Totally unprepared am I
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared am I
Of things beyond my ken
I need someone older and wiser
Telling me what to do
You are seventeen going on eighteen
I'll depend on you
Sixteen Going On Seventeen was written by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II & Rodgers & Hammerstein.
Sixteen Going On Seventeen was produced by Neely Plumb.
Dan Truhitte & Charmian Carr released Sixteen Going On Seventeen on Tue Mar 02 1965.