Harry Chapin – I Wanna Learn A Love Song (Guitar)

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I come fresh from the street,

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fast on my feet, kinda lean and lazy; (OR kinda crass and corny - live version)

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not much meat on my bones, and a whole lot alone,

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and more than a little bit crazy. (OR more than a little bit horny)

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The old six string was all I had

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to keep my belly still,

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and for each full hour lesson I gave

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I got a crisp ten dollar bill.

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She was married for seven years

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to a concrete castle king.

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She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar

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and to hear her children sing.

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So I'd show up about once a week

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in my faded tight-legged jeans

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with a backlog full of hobo stories

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and dilapidated dreams.

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song full of happy things."

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song; won't you let me hear you sing?"

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song, I wanna hear you play."

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song before you go away."

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So I tried to teach her a couple of chords

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and an easy melody;

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but it always turned out she'd rather listen

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to my guitar and me.

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I could hear her old man laughing in the den,

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playing stud poker with the boys

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while I sang so soft in the living room,

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too scared to make much noise.

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I came one week and the den was dark

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and she met me at the door.

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And we sat on the couch and we sang and talked

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'til I could not sing no more.

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The silence kept on building,

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her eyes grew much too wide;

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and I could hear both of our heartbeats,

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but there was no place to hide.

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song full of happy things."

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song; won't you let me hear you sing?"

            G                       Am7
She said, "I wanna learn a love song, I wanna hear you play."

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song before you go away."

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Well, I guess you know what happened,

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God, I never been so clean.

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Yes, I feel like I'm working in a Hollywood movie

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or living out a good bad dream.

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And all them pinup girls in that tinsel world

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never touched me like she can;

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it took another man's wife in the real world life

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to make this boy a man.

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song full of happy things."

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song; won't you let me hear you sing?"

            G                       Am7
She said, "I wanna learn a love song, I wanna hear you play."

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song before you go away."

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(let ring out)