《She Is Always Seventeen》歌词

歌曲： She Is Always Seventeen

所属专辑：Classic Hits of Harry Chapin

歌手： HARRY CHAPIN

时长： 04:16

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She Is Always Seventeen (坦率的市长说谎了) - Harry Chapin[00:00:00]

In the little town of candor in the last year of my youth[00:00:15]

I learned the final lesson of the levels to the truth[00:00:21]

My father was a farmer he'd go tilling in the ground[00:00:25]

My mother was a neighbor she'd go visiting around[00:00:30]

But I didn't care[00:00:36]

For I had found the answer to a plow boy's lonely prayer[00:00:38]

She was the daughter of the mayor[00:00:43]

The mayor fought my courtship for he'd made other plans[00:00:50]

He saw her married to a better man than a boy with farmer's hands[00:00:54]

I said I hate your father it's so hard not to strike him[00:00:59]

She said you know I love you because you're so much like him[00:01:04]

And so I'd go sneaking in the evening[00:01:12]

And there she'd stand a crying in the dawn as I was leaving[00:01:17]

But the mayor of candor lied[00:01:25]

When he offered me his only daughter[00:01:27]

The mayor of candor tried[00:01:30]

To take her off across the water[00:01:32]

What a thing to do to a young man in love[00:01:34]

What a thing to do to your daughter[00:01:39]

One day with father on his tractor and mother off again[00:01:50]

I go to find the mayor and work out what I can[00:01:55]

But he is not at his office he is not at his home[00:01:59]

When I find him in the countryside he is not alone[00:02:04]

He is holding a woman and imagine my surprise[00:02:09]

As she jumps back from his arms I look into my mother's eyes[00:02:14]

All my thoughts of outrage embarrassment and pain[00:02:27]

Were washed away by what came roaring through my brain[00:02:31]

The mayor's at my mercy and I hear my own voice say[00:02:36]

Your run for re-election sir is just one month away[00:02:40]

And the world will never know of what I've seen here sir[00:02:48]

But I'll be with your daughter is my meaning clear sir[00:02:53]

The mayor of candor lied[00:03:01]

When he offered me his only daughter[00:03:03]

The mayor of candor tried[00:03:05]

To take her off across the water[00:03:07]

What a thing to do to a young man in love[00:03:10]

What a thing to do to your daughter[00:03:14]

My mother looks in horror at the compromise we made[00:03:21]

But the mayor's rueful smile says the piper must be paid[00:03:25]

I had a month of joy in heaven from this deal I'd made in hell[00:03:29]

What was to happen then my friend a prophet could not tell[00:03:33]

The day after his re-election and the victory celebration[00:04:07]

The mayor takes his family on a month long foreign vacation[00:04:16]

Oh Coleen you know how much I love you[00:04:30]

There is no one I'd ever place above you[00:04:39]

Oh Coleen you don't even know me[00:04:48]

To have you there's nothing that's below me[00:04:57]

But time always passes after all[00:05:10]

And as the summer follows spring so does the winter follow fall[00:05:16]

The day that they return I stand waiting on the road[00:05:42]

I watch the car drive up I watch the passengers unload[00:05:46]

Of course she isn't there of course I should have known[00:05:51]

The mayor says that she has stayed the decision was her own[00:05:55]

He said she's finishing her schooling on that unseen foreign shore[00:06:01]

And I'll tell you very frankly boy you'll not see her anymore[00:06:06]

The mayor of candor lied[00:06:13]

When he offered me his only daughter[00:06:15]

The mayor of candor tried[00:06:18]

To take her off across the water[00:06:20]

What a thing to do to a young man in love[00:06:22]

What a thing to do to your daughter[00:06:27]

I spit out my hatred and my fury at his lies[00:06:34]

When he says you tried to blackmail me you're just as bad as I[00:06:38]

Go and do your damndest throw your mother to the streets[00:06:43]

You know it's been too many years I had to be discreet[00:06:47]

And as he stands there saying we're just two of a kind[00:06:55]

It hits me like a thunderbolt exploding in my mind[00:07:00]

As I look into his leering aged wrinkled mirror of my own face[00:07:07]

He laughs and sneers and says of course dear son[00:07:21]

Where do you think you came from in the first place[00:07:27]

The mayor of candor lied[00:07:44]

When he offered me his only daughter[00:07:46]

The mayor of candor tried[00:07:48]

To take her across the water[00:07:51]

What a thing to do to a young man in love[00:07:53]

What a thing to do to your daughter[00:07:57]