She has no fear of failure

She's not bent with broken dreams


For the future's just beginning


When you're always seventeen




It was nineteen sixty-one


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





Nineteen sixty-three

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 what had happened


In that brutal Dallas light


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 her 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





It was nineteen sixty-five

And we were marching once more


From the burning cities

Against a crazy war




Memphis, L.A. and Chicago

We bled through sixty-eight


Till she took me up to Woodstock

Saying with love, it's not too late




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

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 her 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



Nineteen seventy-two


I'm at the end of my rope

But she was picketing

The White House chanting, ?A.C.A.?