Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word chords by Earl Scruggs, Joan Baez
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Verse 1
(D major) Seems like only yesterday
I (E minor) left my mind behind
(D major) Down in the gypsy café
With a (E minor) friend of a friend of mine
Who sat (D major) with a baby heavy
on her knee (A minor)
Yet spoke (D major) of life most free
from slavery (A minor)
With eye (D major) s that showed
no trace of misery
(A minor) A phrase (D major) in connection
first with (A minor) she (C major) occurred (D major)
Verse 2
That (D major) love is just a four- letter word
(G major)
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Verse 3
Outside a ram (D major) bling store- front window
Cats (E minor) meowed to the break of day
(D major) Me, I kept my mouth shut
To you I had (E minor) no words to say
My ex (D major) perience was limited
and underfed (A minor)
(D major) You were talking while I (A minor) hid
To the (D major) one who was the father of your (A minor) kid
You (D major) probably didn't think I (A minor) did,
but (C major) I (D major) heard
Verse 4
You say, that (A minor) love is just a (G major) four-
Verse 5
letter word
(D major) I said goodbye unnoticed
Pushed forth (E minor) into my own games
(D major) Drifting in and out of lifetimes
Unmen (E minor) tionable by name
Searching (D major) for my double, looking (A minor) for
Com (D major) plete evaporation to the core (A minor)
Though I (D major) tried and failed at finding any door (A minor)
I (D major) must have thought that there
was nothing more (A minor) ab (C major) surd
Verse 6
(D major) Than that love is (A minor) just a
(D major) four- letter (G major) word
Verse 7
(G major)
Though I (D major) never knew just
what you meant
When you were (E minor) speaking to your man
I can (D major) only think in terms of me
And (E minor) now I understand
After (D major) waking enough times
to think I (A minor) see
The holy kiss (D major) that's supposed
to last eternity (A minor)
Blow (D major) up in smoke, it's des (A minor) tiny
Fall (D major) s on strangers, travels (A minor) free
Yes, I know (D major) now,
traps are only set by (A minor) me
And I (D major) do not really need
to be (A minor) (D major) as (C major) sured (D major)
Verse 8
That (A minor) love is just a (D major) four- letter word
(G major)
Verse 9
Strange it is (D major) to be beside you
Many years (E minor) the tables turned
You'd (D major) probably not believe me
If I told (E minor) you all I've learned
And (D major) it is very, very weird indeed (A minor)
To (D major) hear words like forever (A minor) , fleets
Of ships (D major) run through my mind,
I cannot cheat (A minor)
It's like (D major) looking in
the teacher's face complete (A minor)
I (D major) can say nothing to you but
re (A minor) peat what (C major) I heard (D major)
Verse 10
That (D major) love is just a four- letter (G major) word
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Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word
Earl Scruggs, Joan Baez
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