Seventeen:Frankie Ford.
#72 on BB Hot 100 on IMPERIAL Records
in 1961.
INTRO:
(She s seventeen..she s seventeen..a real cool
baby at seventeen.)
#1.
Seventeen, seventeen, cool and solid seventeen.
Young enough to dance and sing..
old enough to get that swing.
Past sixteen just been kissed..
graduated and got that twist.
Kind of love I can t re...sist..
at seventeen.
CHORUS:
Now, sloppy shirt, old blue jeans..
dirty shoes, by all means.
Patch of blonde, peroxide hair..
jukebox baby ain t no square.
#2.
Seventeen, hot-rod queen.
Cutest girl you ve ever seen.
Tell the world I m really keen,
On my hep-cat doll of sev..en..teen.
(INTERLUDE:)
#3.
Seventeen, seventeen, cool and solid seventeen.
Young enough to dance and sing,
Old enough to get that swing.
Past sixteen just done been been kissed,
graduated and got that twist.
Kind of love you can t re...sist,
at seventeen.
CHORUS:
Now, sloppy shirt, old blue jeans,
dirty shoes, by all means.
Patch of blonde, peroxide hair,
jukebox baby ain t no square.
#4.
Seventeen, hot-rod queen.
Cutest girl you ve ever seen.
Tell the world I m really keen,
On my hep-cat doll of sev..en..teen.
OUTRO:
(She s his seventeen..doot-doot-doobie-
doo-doo..
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.