Song | Sixteen Going on Seventeen (reprise) (Remastered) |
Artist | Rodgers & Hammerstein |
Album | The Sound of Music (45th Anniversary Remastered Edition) |
Rolf: | |
You wake, little girl, on an empty stage | |
For fate to turn the light on. | |
Your life, little girl, is an empty page | |
That men will want to write on... | |
Liesl: To write on... | |
Rolf: | |
You are sixteen going on seventeen | |
Baby, it's time to think! | |
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 bruees 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 kin! | |
You need someone older and wiser | |
Telling you what to do! | |
I am seventeen going on eighteen, | |
I'll take care of you! | |
Liesl: | |
I am sixteen going on seventeen | |
I know that I'm naïve. | |
Fellows I meet | |
May tell me I'm sweet | |
And, willingly, I believe! | |
I am sixteen going on seventeen | |
Innocent as a rose. | |
Bacheledandies, 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 kin! | |
I need someone older and wiser | |
Telling me what to do! | |
You are seventeen going on eighteen, | |
I'll depend on you! |
Rolf: | |
You wake, little girl, on an empty stage | |
For fate to turn the light on. | |
Your life, little girl, is an empty page | |
That men will want to write on... | |
Liesl: To write on... | |
Rolf: | |
You are sixteen going on seventeen | |
Baby, it' s time to think! | |
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 bruees 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 kin! | |
You need someone older and wiser | |
Telling you what to do! | |
I am seventeen going on eighteen, | |
I' ll take care of you! | |
Liesl: | |
I am sixteen going on seventeen | |
I know that I' m na ve. | |
Fellows I meet | |
May tell me I' m sweet | |
And, willingly, I believe! | |
I am sixteen going on seventeen | |
Innocent as a rose. | |
Bacheledandies, 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 kin! | |
I need someone older and wiser | |
Telling me what to do! | |
You are seventeen going on eighteen, | |
I' ll depend on you! |