Key: Eb
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Intro: Eb - Bb - G#-- x2
Verse 1:
Eb
Here is whatnot
Bb
at the record shop
G#
I will kiss you
in the parking lot
Eb
Smoking
cigarettes and
Bb G#
smoking pot seventeen
Eb
Here you told me
Bb
I was beautiful
G#
Skipping on the
neighbor cynical
Eb
yeah you told me
Bb
how you played the
G#
role seventeen
Refrain:
Fm
But hey this
Bb
isn't long gone
And when I hear this
G#(Hold)
song It takes me back
Chorus 1:
We're on top
Eb
of the world
Bb
When I was your girl
we're living so
G#
wild and free
acting stupid
Eb
and more fun
Bb
all we need was love
that's the way
G#
it's supposed to be
G#(Hold)
seventeen
Verse 2:
Eb
Stealing beers out
Bb
of the trailer park
G#
Flicking lighters
just the fight the dark
Eb
My favorite place was
Bb
sitting in his car
G#
seventeen
Eb
Laying fucking
Bb
on the rooftop
G#
The time I knew
I want to make you stop
Eb
at least you throw a
Bb
bottle you can't pause
G#
seventeen
(Repeat Refrain)
Chorus 2:
We're on top
Eb
of the world
Bb
When I was your girl
we're living so
G#
wild and free
acting stupid
Eb
and more fun
Bb
all we need was love
that's the way
G#
it's supposed to be
Eb
We were running red lights
Bb
We were going all night
G#
didn't care about anything
We were living
Eb
like the dream
being stupid
Bb
with a dream
G#
And we were Seventeen
Bridge:
Cm Bb G#
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Cm Bb G#
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Verse 3:
Eb Bb
I remember what it felt like
G#
Just a small town kind of
Eb
life If only I could just
Bb G#(Hold)
go back in time seventeen
Chorus 3:
We're on top
Eb
of the world
Bb
When I was your girl
we're living so
G#
wild and free
acting stupid
Eb
and more fun
Bb
all we need was love
that's the way
G#
it's supposed to be
Eb
We were running red lights
Bb
We were going all night
G#
didn't care about anything
We were living
Eb
like the dream
we were running
Bb
out of dream
G#
we were Seventeen
Eb/G G#
se---venteen
G#
seventeen
G# G#(hold)
seventeen