Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word

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

1968Folk
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  • Intro 1
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    C
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    Verse 1
    D

    Seems like only yesterday
    Em

    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
    D

    Outside a rambling store-front window
    Em

    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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    Am

    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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    Am

    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
    Em

    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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    Am

    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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    Am

    Blow up in smoke, its destiny
    D
    Am

    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
    D

    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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    Am

    And it is very, very weird indeed
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    Am

    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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