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, with roues and cans,
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 care
So you need someone
older and wiser
telling you what to do
I am 17, going on 18,
I'll take care of you.
I am 16, going on 17,
I know that I'm naive.
Fellows I meet may
tell me I'm sweet,
and willingly I'll believe.
I am sixteen, going on seventeen,
innocent as a rose.
Bachelor daddies, 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 care
I need someone older and wiser
telling me what to do
You are seventeen,
going on eighteen,
I'll depend on you.
When you're sixteen,
going on seventeen,
waiting for life to start,
Somebody kind who touches your mind
will suddenly touch your heart
When that happens, af ter 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 the 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, coming on seventeen,
wait a year or two.