Edge of Seventeen

Just like the whitewinged dove sings a song that sounds like she's singin',

(Em)"Ooh, ooh, ooh."

Just like the whitewinged dove sings a song that sounds like she's singin',

"Ooh, (baby) ooh,

(said) ooh."

And the (C)days go by like a strand in the wind in the web that is my own.

I begin again.

Said to my friend,

"Baby,

(D)nothin' else (Em)mattered."

(C)He was no more

(C)than a baby then.

(C)Well, he seemed brokenhearted,

(D)something within him.

(D)But the moment

that I first laid

(Em)eyes on him,

all alone on (C)the edge of

(D)seventeen,

(D)Just like the whitewinged dove sings a song that sounds like she's singin',

(Em)"Ooh, (baby) ooh,

(said) ooh."

Just like the (C)whitewinged dove sings a song that sounds like she's singin',

(Em)"Ooh, (baby) ooh,

(said) ooh."

Just like the whiteWell, I (C)went today.

Maybe (D)I will go again

tomorrow.

(D)And the music there, well, it was

hauntingly familiar.

(D)When I (C)see you doin' what I try to to for me with the (Em)words from a poet and a voice from a choir and a (C)melody,

(D)nothin' else (Em)mattered.

(Em)Just like the whitewinged dove sings a song that sounds like she's singin',

"Ooh, (baby) ooh,

(said) ooh."

Just like the (C)whitewinged dove sings a song that sounds like she's singin',

(Em)"Ooh, (baby) ooh,

(said) ooh."

Just like the whiteThe clouds never expect (D)it

when it rains,