The Cure
Seventeen Seconds 
Transcribed by: Mario Dorion and Jamie Carpenter

17 seconds
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A               F
Time slips away
        A                     F
and the light begins to fade
A                       F
Everything's quiet now


(repeat A-F ad lib)

It's basically just two chords, Am and F7 with a B

The fingerings for these are:


        Am        F7+B

E       0          0
B       1          0
G       2          2
D       2          3
A       0          3
E       x          1

It's easiest to play the F chord like an open E chord slid up one fret 
and with your thumb fretting the E string

The rhythm goes like this. Note where you take your fingers off the D 
and G strings while playing the Am chord:

One dash (-) is a quaver

E  0000-0-0|0-------
B  1111-1-1|0-------
G  2220-2-0|2-------
D  2220-2-0|3-------
A  0000-0-0|3-------
E  xxxx-x-x|1-------

Repeat ad infinitum I think with different strumming patterns for the 
F chord - check with the recording