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Artist: Bobby Brown
Canonical path: /brown-bobby/seventeen
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Seventeen
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Seventeen
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Just a girl
With a dream
Had it all
Only seventeen
Went to school
Then to church
Understood
Felt no need to search
She left home
Just because
Her boyfriend
Said how fly she was
She made love
Night and day
Had his baby
Now he's gone away
Seventeen
Oh, girl
Seventeen
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Seventeen
Made her stronger
Seventeen
Sold her soul to the streets
So her child has some food to eat
Running home she won't go
'Cause everyone said girl I told you so
Sex and drugs, oh
There's more to a life
Friends gonna push you, oh, oh
But do what is right
You can walk
And still have fun
Educate your state of mind
While you're young
Seventeen
On her own girl
Seventeen
Made her stronger
Seventeen
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Seventeen
Seventeen
Sold her soul to the streets
Seventeen
So her child could have some food to eat
Seventeen
Just a girl with a dream
Seventeen
Had it all, only seventeen
Sex and drugs
(Sex and drugs)
There's more to a life
Friends gonna push you
(Friends gonna push you)
But do what is right
You can walk
(You can walk)
And still have fun
Educate your state of mind
(Educate your state of mind)
While you're young
Seventeen
Seventeen
Seventeen
Seventeen
Seventeen
Seventeen
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Seventeen
Seventeen
Seventeen
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Seventeen
Seventeen
Sold her soul to the streets
Seventeen
So her child could have some food to eat
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Just a girl with a dream
Seventeen
Had it all, only seventeen
Seventeen
Yeah, yeah, baby
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On her own girl
Seventeen
She's only seventeen
Seventeen
Oh, yeah
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The girl is only seventeen now
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