Lyrics From The Sound of Music

"The Sound of Music" is the most immortal music-movie Hollywood ever produced, and is very familiar to most Chinese than born in 1970s and 1980s because it is one of the sources they used to learn English. I'm going to present some of the lyrics in it below.

Sixteen Going on Seventeen

Sung by Rolf and Liesl

(Rolf) You wait, 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
to write on.........

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 roues and cads

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 ken
You'll 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 naive

Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet

And willingly I believe

I am sixteen going on seventeen

Innocent as a rose

Bachelor dandies, 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 ken
I need someone older and wiser

Telling me what to do,

You are seventeen going on eighteen

I'll depend on you!