[Intro] She has no fear of failure She's not bent with broken dreams For the future's just beginning When you're always seventeen [Verse 1] It was 1961 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 [Verse 2] 1963, 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 of what had happened in that brutal Dallas light [Chorus] 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 our 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 [Verse 3] It was 1965 and we were marching once more From the burning cities against a crazy war Memphis, L.A. and Chicago, we bled through '68 'Til she took me up to Woodstock saying with love it's not too late [Verse 4] 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 [Chorus] 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 our 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 [Verse 5] 1972, I'm at the end of my rope But she was picketing the White House Chanting, "The truth's the only hope" In 1975 when the crooked king was gone She was feeding starving children saying the dream must go on [Chorus] 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 our 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