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"Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music''. ==Background== The lyrics of the song state that Liesl is a young girl at the beginning of her womanhood, and that she can depend on Rolf for guidance, because he is a good year older. Since the comparative maturity of the two characters in the story is the opposite of that expressed in the song, this is an example of lyrical irony. A reprise of "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is also sung by Maria and Liesl when the Captain and Maria come back from their honeymoon and Rolf has rejected Liesl. The introduction for the reprise, written to be sung by Maria, was not included in the film version of The Sound of Music,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDYKaE7p24I )〕 but continues to be used in theatrical versions of the musical. "A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, A song is no song 'til you sing it, And love in your heart Wasn’t put there to stay - Love isn’t love 'Til you give it away."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itRC1-_y6Dw )〕 Songwriters Don Roth and Timmy Tappan borrowed heavily from Hammerstein's introduction to the reprise in "Love Isn't Love ('Til You Give It Away)", which was a song covered by Reba McEntire on her Behind the Scene album: "A smile's not a smile until it wrinkles your face A bell's not a bell without ringing A home's not a home when there's nobody there A song's not a song without singing. "Love isn't love till you give it away Love isn't love till it's free The love in your heart Wasn't put there to stay Oh love isn't love till you give it away."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/reba-mcentire/love-isnt-love-til-you-give-it-away-8030.html )〕 In the motion picture version, the song was filmed in and around a gazebo which is still visited by hundreds of tourists each day doing "Sound of Music" tours around Salzburg though the gazebo interiors were filmed in Hollywood. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sixteen Going on Seventeen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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