Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word chords by
Joan Baez

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

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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 baby heavy on her knee

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Yet spoke of life most free from slavery

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With eyes that showed no trace of misery

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A phrase in connection first with she

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oc curred

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That love is just a four-letter word

Verse 2

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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 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, but I heard

You say, that love

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is just a four-letter word

Verse 3

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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

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there was nothing more ab surd

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Than that love is just a four-letter word

Verse 4

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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 to think I see

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The holy kiss

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that's supposed to last eternity

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Blow up in smoke, its destiny

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Falls on strangers, travels free

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Yes, I know now, traps are only set by me

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And I do not really need to be

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as sured

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That love is just a four-letter word

Verse 5

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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, I cannot cheat

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It's like looking in the teacher's face complete

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I can say nothing to you but repeat

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what I heard

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That love is just a four-letter word

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