{"id":10967,"date":"2022-06-23T04:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=10967"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:39:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:39:57","slug":"sixteen-going-on-seventeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/sixteen-going-on-seventeen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen Going on Seventeen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robertandrews.net\/songpics\/Q-S\/16-17.jpg\">SHEET MUSIC<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>\r\nSIXTEEN\r\n \r\n           F                    A#               Gm     C           F\r\n    You wait, little girl, on an empty stage, for fate to turn the light on.\r\n                                    A#           Gm          C          F\r\n    Your life, little girl, is an empty page that men will want to write on.\r\n            Gm          - C\r\n    To write on...\r\n \r\n   F              C                    F                  D\r\n1. You are sixteen going on seventeen, baby, it's time to think,\r\n    Gm       C        F                  A#           Gm        C     - C7\r\n    better beware, be canny and careful, baby, you're on the brink   \r\n    F               C                   F                    D\r\n    You are sixteen going on seventeen, fellows will fall in line,\r\n    Gm                   F                   Gm        C        F\r\n    eager young lads and roues and cads will offer you food and wine.\r\n      A#           Gm              F      F7       A#\r\n    Totally unprepared are you to face a world of men,\r\n     A#                Gm                F        C         G   - C7\r\n    timid and shy and scared are you of things beyond your ken.\r\n     F                  C               F                   C  - C7\r\n    You'll need someone older and wiser telling you what to do,\r\n   F               C                  Gm         C      F      - C\r\n    I am seventeen going on eighteen, I'll take care of you !\r\n \r\n   F                     C                            F                   D\r\n2. I am sixteen going seventeen I know that I'm na\u00efve,\r\n    Gm        C        F                      A#        Gm   C     - C7\r\n    fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet, and willingly I believe.\r\n    F            C                   F               D\r\n    I am sixteen going on seventeen, innocent as a rose.\r\n    Gm       C        F           Dm        Gm        C       F\r\n    bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies, what do I know of those ?\r\n      A#        Gm              F      F7         A#\r\n    Totally unprepared am I to face a world of men,\r\n    A#                 Gm             F        C        G   - C7\r\n    timid and shy and scared am I of things beyond my ken.\r\n    F              C                F                  C  - C7\r\n    I need someone older and wiser, telling me what to do,\r\n      F               C                 Gm     C       F\r\n    you are seventeen going on eighteen I'll depend on you!\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHEET MUSIC SIXTEEN F A# Gm C F You wait, little girl, on an empty stage, for fate to turn the light on. A# Gm C F Your life, little girl, is an empty page that men will want to write on. Gm &#8211; C To write on&#8230; F C &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/sixteen-going-on-seventeen\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sixteen Going on Seventeen<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,126,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-songpics-sheetmusic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29448,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10967\/revisions\/29448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}