I Wanna Learn a Love Song chords by
Harry Chapin

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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I come fresh from the street

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Fast on my feet, kinda lean and lazy

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Not much meat on my bones

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And a whole lot alone,

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more than a little bit crazy

Verse 2

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And 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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Verse 3

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You see, she was

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married for seven years

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To a concrete castle king

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She said, she wanted to learn

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to play the guitar

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And to hear her children sing

Verse 4

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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

Verse 5

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Am

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song

Full of happy things"

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She said, "I wannalearn a love song

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Won't you let me hear you sing?"

Verse 6

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She said, "I wanna learn

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a love song

Wanna hear you play"

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She said, "I, I wanna learn a love song

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Before you go away"

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Verse 7

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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,

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she'd rather listen

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To my guitar and me

Verse 8

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I could hear her old man

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laughin' in the den

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Playin' 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

Verse 9

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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

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and we sang and talked

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'Til I could not sing no more

Verse 10

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You know, the silence kept on buildin'

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And her eyes grew much too wide

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I could hear both of our heartbeats

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But there was no place to hide

Verse 11

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Am

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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

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Won't you let me hear you sing?"

Verse 12

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She said, "I wanna learn

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a love song

Wanna hear you play"

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song

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Before you go away"

Interlude 1

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Verse 13

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Guess, you know what happened

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My God, I never been so clean

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Yeah, I feel like I'm workin'

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in a Hollywood movie

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Or livin' out a good bad dream

Verse 14

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And all them pin- up girls

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in that tinsel world

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Never touched me, like she can

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It took another man's wife

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in the real world life

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To make this boy, a man

Verse 15

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Am

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song

Full of happy things"

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D

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song

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Won't you let me hear you sing?"

Verse 16

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She said, "I wanna learn

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a love song

Wanna hear you play"

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D

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She said, "I wanna learn a love song

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Before you go away"

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I guess you know,

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I stayed

Outro 1

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