Sixteen Going on Seventeen

Sixteen Going on Seventeen - Jerry Keller/Johanna

I'll take care of you

You are sixteen going on seventeen

Baby it's time to think

You better beware be canny and careful

Baby you're on the brink

You are sixteen going on seventeen

Fellows will fall in line

Eager young lads and rogues and cads

Will offer you food and wine

Totally unprepared are you

To face a world of men

Timid and shy and scared are you

Of things beyond your ken

So you need someone older and wiser

Telling you what to do

I am seventeen going on eighteen

I'll take care of you

I am sixteen going on seventeen

I know that I'm naive

Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet

And willingly I believe

I am sixteen going on seventeen

Innocent as a rose

Bachelor dandies drinkers of brandies

What do I know of those

Totally unprepared am I

To face a world of men

Timid and shy and scared am I

Of things beyond my ken

I need someone older and wiser

Telling me what to do

You are seventeen going on eighteen

I'll depend on you

When you are sixteen going on seventeen

Waiting for life to start

Somebody kind who touches your mind

Will suddenly touch your heart

When that happens after it happens

Nothing is quite the same

Somehow you know you'll jump up and go

If ever he calls your name

And gone are your old ideas of life

The old ideas grow dim

Lo and behold you're someone's wife

And you belong to him

Now you may think this kind of adventure

Never may come to you

But darling sixteen going on seventeen

Wait a year

Or two