Seventeen Summers Chords by Skinny Lister

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_ _ _ [D] I was only a boy [A] when the village [C] I fled _ _
To _ _ _ _ _ some southern flung place all [D] about I [G] had read
I said give me a year and I'll [A] return [C] _
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_ _ Then a year turned to two and [D] then two turned [G] to ten
Oh and seventy [C] _ summers _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ I gave to [D] this city _ _
_ _ _ Oh with many [C] a lover _ _
[Bm] That _ _ came and [D] then went _ _
_ _ All the friends and [C] the stories _ _
_ [Bm] I _ think of them [D] _ _ dearly _
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Oh [G] in these rotten [C] streets [D] my best days have [G] been spent _
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I was only a boy when to [E] London [C] I came _ _ _ _ _
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Chancing my look on [D] some fortune [G] or fame
Well still they _ allured me but still I [C] _ _ remained _
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That dirty old river [D] it runs through [G] my veins
Oh and _ [C] seventeen summers
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I gave to [D] this _ city
_ _ Oh with many [C] a lover
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That [D] came and then went _ _ _ _
All the friends and [C] the stories
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I think [D] of them _ _ dearly _ _ _
_ _ [G] Oh in these rotten [D] streets my best days have [G] been spent _ _ _
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Oh and seventeen [C] _ summers _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ I [G] gave to [D] this _ city
_ _ Oh with many [C] a lover _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ That came and [D] then went _
_ _ _ All the friends and [C] the stories _
_ _ [Bm] _ I think of [D] them _ dearly
_ _ _ _ Oh _ [G] in these rotten [C]
streets [D] my best days have [G] been spent _ _ _ _ _
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Oh in these rotten streets [D] my best days have [G] been spent
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