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