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

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Key: G major•

Intro 1

G

G

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G

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C/G

C/G

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G

G

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G/F#

G/F#

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G/E

G/E

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Verse 1
D D 
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Seems like only yesterday
Em Em 
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I left my mind behind
D D 
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Down in the gypsy café
Em Em 
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With a friend of a friend of mine
D D 
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Am Am 
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Who sat with baby heavy on her knee
D D 
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Am Am 
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Yet spoke of life most free from slavery
D D 
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Am Am 
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With eyes that showed no trace of misery
D D 
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Am Am 
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A phrase in connection first with she
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D D 
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oc curred
D7 D7 
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G G 
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G G 
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G G 
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G G 
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That love is just a four-letter word
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Outside   a     rambling

Verse 2
D D 
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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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Am Am 
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My experience was limited and underfed
D D 
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Am Am 
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You were talking while I   hid
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To the one who was the father of your kid
D D 
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C C 
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D D 
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You probably didn't think I did, but I  heard
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You say, that love
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G G 
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G G 
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is just a four-letter word
G/F# G/F# 
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I

Verse 3
D D 
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said goodbye unnoticed
Em Em 
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Pushed forth into my own games
D D 
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Drifting in and out of lifetimes
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Unmentionable by name
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Am Am 
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Searching for my double, looking for
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Am Am 
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Complete evaporation to the core
D D 
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Am Am 
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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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C C 
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D D 
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there was nothing more ab surd
D7 D7 
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G G 
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G G 
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G G 
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G G 
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Than that love is just a four-letter word
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Though I

Verse 4
D D 
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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
D D 
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Blow up in smoke, its destiny
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Am Am 
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Falls on strangers, travels free
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Am Am 
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Yes, I know now, traps are only set by  me
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Am Am 
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And I do not really need to be
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D D 
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as sured
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G G 
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G G 
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G G 
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That love is just a four-letter word
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Strange it    is

Verse 5
D D 
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to be beside you
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Many years the tables turned
D D 
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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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Am Am 
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To hear words like forever, fleets
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Am Am 
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Of ships run through my mind, I cannot cheat
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Am Am 
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It's like looking in the teacher's face complete
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Am Am 
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I can say nothing to you but repeat
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D D 
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what I  heard
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G G 
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That love is just a four-letter word
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