(She’s) Sexy + 17 (1983)    (video)

 

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(spoken): Hey, babe, I don’t feel like goin‘ to school no more. Me neither !

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                They can’t make you go. No you daddyo, yeah !

 

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1. I ain’t goin’ to school, it starts too early for me,

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    well, listen, man, I ain’t goin’ to school no more,

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    it starts much, much too early for me,

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    I don’t care about readin’, writin’, ‘rithmetic or history.

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    I’m gonna walk to the corner and meet my little Marie,

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    I’m gonna walk to the corner and meet my little Marie,

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  well, she’s the only girl in this whole wide world who understands me.

 

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Well, she’s       sexy and seventeen, my little rock’n roll queen,

A                                        - E

    acts a little bit obscene,        gotta let off a little steam,

 B7                       A7                                E   

dig that sound, shake it around, you’re mine, mine, mine.

 

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2. Johnny and Eddie and me and Jimmy and Jack,

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    are gonna do a little number on the teacher when she turns her back,

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    we’re gonna cut out of class, meet the girls by the railroad track.

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    Well, every Friday night there’s a band that you gotta hear,

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    just a dollar to get in and twenty-five cents a beer,

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    they play rock and roll music like it hasn’t been rocked for years.

 

+  CHORUS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

+  E - A - E - B7 - A - E (2x)

 

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3. Well, when I hear that rockin’ beat, I can’t sit still, up out of my seat,

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    come on, babe, let’s jump round your feet,

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    can’t learn nothing in school, they don’t teach you on the street.

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   Wo-oh-oh, baby I like your style, wo-oh-oh-oh-oh, baby, I like your style,

                     B7                                   A                         E     - B7

    you don’t care what the other kids say, you go real wild !

 

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Well, you’re       sexy and seventeen, my little rock’n roll queen,

A                                      - E

    act a little bit obscene,        gotta let off a little steam,

 B7                       A7                                E   

dig that sound, shake it around, you’re mine, mine, mine, mine.

 

      B7                             A                                  E

+  Dig that sound and shake it around, you’re mine, mine, mine, mine !

     B7                              A                                  E

    Dig that sound and shake it around, you’re mine, mine, mine !

 

 

    (The Stray Cats)