Harry Chapin - I wanna learn a love song
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This tab is 100% correct. I pulled it from the original songbook of "Verities &
published in 1974. It tooks me two years to find this book, and I bought it just for this song.
luck!
CHORDS USED
Am7 x02010
D7 xx0212
C x32010
G 3x0003 (or just regular G 320033)
Dm7/G 3x0211
Em 022000
"I WANNA LEARN A LOVE SONG" - Verities & Balderdash
Words and Music by HARRY CHAPIN
VERSE 1
I come Am7fresh from the street,
D7fast on my feet, Ckinda Am7lean and Glazy;
not much Am7meat on my bones, and a D7whole lot alone,
and Cmore than a Am7little bit Gcrazy.
The Dm7/Gold six string was Call I had
to Am7keep my belly stillEm,
and for Am7each full hour D7lesson I gave
I got a Ccrisp ten Am7dollar billG.
VERSE 2
Am7She was married for D7seven years
to a Cconcrete Am7castle Gking.
She said she Am7wanted to learn to D7play the guitar
and to Chear her Am7children Gsing.
So Dm7/GI'd show up about Conce a week
in my Am7faded tight-legged Emjeans
with a Am7backlog full of D7hobo stories
and diClapidated dreams.
CHORUS
She said,G "I wanna learn a loveAm7 song full of happy things."
She said,D "I wanna learn a love song; won'tC you let me hear you sing?"
She said, &qGuot;I wanna learn a loveAm7 song, I wanna hear you play."
She said, &qDuot;I wanna learn a love soCng beforAm7e youG go away."
(The rest of the song is played in the same pattern. VERSE 3 has the same chords as
1, VERSE 4 and VERSE 5 have the same chords as VERSE 2, and the CHORUS chords are all the same.)
VERSE 3
So I tried to teach her a couple of chords
and an easy melody;
but it always turned out she'd rather listen
to my guitar and me.
I could hear her old man laughing in the den,
playing stud poker with the boys
while I sang so soft in the living room,
to scared to make much noise.
VERSE 4
I came one week and the den was dark
and she met me at the door.
And we sat on the couch and we sang and talked
till I could not sing no more.
The silence kept on building,
her eyes grew much too wide;
and I could her both of our heartbeats,
but there was no place to hide.
CHORUS
She said,G "I wanna learn a loveAm7 song full of happy things."
She said,D "I wanna learn a love song; won'tC you let me hear you sing?"
She said, &qGuot;I wanna learn a loveAm7 song, I wanna hear you play."
She said, &qDuot;I wanna learn a love soCng beforAm7e youG go away."
VERSE 5
Well, I guess you know what happened,
God, I never been so clean.
Yes, I feel like I'm working in a Hollywood movie
or living out a good bad dream.
And all them pinup girls in that tinsel world
never touched me like she can;
it took another man's wife in the real world life
to make this boy a man.
CHORUS
She said,G "I wanna learn a loveAm7 song full of happy things."
She said,D "I wanna learn a love song; won'tC you let me hear you sing?"
She said, &qGuot;I wanna learn a loveAm7 song, I wanna hear you play."
She said, &qDuot;I wanna learn a love soCng beforAm7e youG go away."
(lCet ring ouAm7t) G C Am7
I guess you know I stayed.