Sixteen Going on Seventeen

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Sixteen Going on Seventeen is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. In the show it is sung 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 womanhood, and having men approach 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 though the gazebo interiors were filmed in Hollywood.

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.