Sweet Sixteen chords by Judy Garland

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Verse 1
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For fifteen years I've
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played a waiting game,
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I've suffered like they do in Russian plays.
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But if what's in store
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is really what they claim
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I must admit that suffering really pains
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For fif teen years I've been
just like a prisoner in a cell
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For fifteen years my life
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has been just aw ful
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From one to four was such a bore
I remember how I hated
having all those people call
me and talk baby talk.
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They'd say goo -goo
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Is n't she cunning?
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Poor dear.
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She has her father's nose
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The years from five to eight I hate
I've grown into a very unattractive
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child
and consequently was utterly and
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completely ignored
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But I didn't really mind.
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I had a book of Mother Goose
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and Mother Goose
is pretty hot stuff
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when you're five years old
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At nine, I had the measles,
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so that didn't count
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At ten, I had reached
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the performing stage
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and at the drop of the hat,
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Mother would call me in
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and have me sing the Ros ary for
her guests
I never will forget
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how Papa used to squirm
when I hit that high note
From eleven to thirteen,
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I'd rather not speak of
It was bad enough having
Jimmy Duke
and pull my hair in school
but it was positively humiliating
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to have my own mother
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refer to me as her dear little ugly duckling
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At 14, I had my first taste of ro     mance
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It     was at a party at dancing school
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and he was younger than I was
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and shorter than I was
Oh, but he had a won
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derful name Archibald
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And      he really liked me
too, he really did
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Then I had to go and spoil it all.
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I asked him right out
if he'd be my best beau.
That was the last I ever saw of him.
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By now I was 15 and
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pretty miserable.
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Mother refused to let me wear any
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lipstick  or rouge
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and I     went around looking as pale as
death.
It was then that I decided
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to join the monastery
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and I would have too,
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if it hadn't been for Bing Crosby.
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I     was afraid they wouldn't have any
radios in monasteries
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So, I devoted my 15th year to craft cheese
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But now it's a different story
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I can brush away the tears
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And laugh at those awful 15 years
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For now I'm sweet 16
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and      I've got my first long dress.
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I can even have a date
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one night a week.
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I can paint my lips a little
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and rouge my cheek.
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I'm sweet sixteen
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but I   really must confess.
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Although this     grown -up
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life   isn't simple,
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I wouldn't change places
with Shirley Temple.
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Gee, it's great to be just as free
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as the birds above me.
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I'm a Juliet
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Get out to get a Romeo to love me
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I   ask you please forget
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that I   was an in -between
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I mean my flags are furled
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I'm a woman of the world
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I'm sweet sixteen
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