Edge Of Seventeen Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

C=x355xx

D=x577xx

Em=022xx

palm mute through whole song, listen to song to get strumming right, light distortion/ overdrive effects

 Just Clike the white winged doDve sings a song sounds like shes singin

EmOoh Ooh Ooh

 Just like the white Cwinged dove sings a songD sounds like shes singin

EmOoh baby Ooh said Ooh

 And the Cdays go by like a strandD in the wind

 In the webEm that is my own I begin again

CSaid to my friend, Baby,D nothing else matterEmed

CHe was no moreD than a babEmy then

 Well he Cseemed broken-hearted D

 Something within hEmim

 But the momCent that I firstD laid eEmyes on him

 All alone on the eCdge ofD seventeEmen

 Just like the whiteC winged dove sings a sonDg sounds like shes singin

EmOoh baby Ooh said Ooh

 Just like the whiteC winged dove sings a sonDg sounds like shes singin

EmOoh baby Ooh said Ooh

 Well I Cwent today maybe DI will go again tomorroEmw

 And the muCsic there well it wasD hauntingly familiaEmr

 When I sCee you doin what I tryD to do for me

 With theEm words from a poet and a voice from a choir

 And a mCelody,D nothin else matterEmed

 Just like the whiteC winged dove sings a sonDg sounds like shes singin

EmOoh baby Ooh said Ooh

 Just like the whiteC winged dove sings a sonDg sounds like shes singin

EmOoh baby Ooh said Ooh

 The cloudEms never expect Dit when it rainsC but the seaD changes cColor

 But the seaD does not change C D

EmSo with the slowD sad graceful Cglow of age D

 I went forthC with an age oDld desireC to pleaseD

 On the eCdge of sDeventeen C D

Ooh............

 Just like the whiteC winged dove sings a sonDg sounds like shes singin

EmOoh baby Ooh said Ooh

 Just like the whiteC winged dove sings a sonDg sounds like shes singin

EmOoh baby Ooh said Ooh

 Well then sCuddenly there was Dnoone left standin in the hallway Em

 Yeah Yeah, in a flooCd of tears that nDoone really ever heard fallEm at all

 Well I went searchCin for an answer up the stairsD and down the hall

EmNot to find an answer but just to hear the call of a nightCbird D

 Singin comeEm away, come away, come away

 Just like the whiteC winged dove sings a sonDg sounds like shes singin

EmOoh baby Ooh said Ooh

 Just like the whiteC winged dove sings a sonDg sounds like shes singin

EmOoh baby Ooh said Ooh

 Well I Emhear you in the mornDin' and I hEmear you at nighDtfall

 And somEmetimes to be near Dyou is toEm be unaDble to hear yCouD my love Em

 Im a few years oldCer than youD my love Em

 Just like the whiteC winged dove sings a sonDg sounds like shes singin

EmOoh baby Ooh said Ooh

(fade out while repeating chorus)