She has no fear of failure   She's not bent with broken dreams   For the future's just beginning   When you're always seventeen      It was nineteen sixty-one   When we went to Washington   She put her arms around me   And said, "Camelot's begun"      We listened to his visions   Of how our land should be   We gave him our hearts and minds   To send across the sea      Nineteen sixty-three   White and black upon the land   She brought me to the monuments   And made us all join hands      And scarcely six months later   She held me through the night   When we heard what had happened   In that brutal Dallas light   Oh, she is always seventeen      She has a dream that she will lend us   And a love that we can borrow   There is so much joy inside her   She will even share her sorrow      She's our past, our present   And our promise of tomorrow   Oh, truly she's the only hope I've seen   And she is always seventeen      It was nineteen sixty-five   And we were marching once more   From the burning cities   Against a crazy war      Memphis, L.A. and Chicago   We bled through sixty-eight   Till she took me up to Woodstock   Saying with love, it's not too late      We started out the seventies   Living off the land   She was sowing seeds in Denver   Trying to make me understand      That mankind is woman   And woman is man   And until we free each other   We cannot free the land   Oh, she is always seventeen      She has a dream that she will lend us   And a love that we can borrow   There is so much joy inside her   She will even share her sorrow      She's our past, our present   And our promise of tomorrow   Oh, truly she's the only hope I've seen   And she is always seventeen      Nineteen seventy-two   I'm at the end of my rope   But she was picketing   The White House chanting, ?A.C.A.?