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.
