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'Sixteen Going on Seventeen' is a love song written by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.
It is sung in the musical ''The Sound of Music'' by the captain's eldest daughter, Liesl, and Rolf Gruber the messenger boy, who delivers the captain's telegrams, and ends up betraying the family, after being told he will never be a Nazi by Georg.
The lyrics of the song state that Liesl is a young girl at the beginning of her becoming a woman, and having men appoach her, and that she can depend on Rolf for guidance, because he's a good year older.
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.
A reprise of "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is also sung by Maria and Liesl in the Sound of Music play and in the movie when the Captain and Maria come back from their honeymoon and Rolf has rejected Liesl.