Harry Chapin - I Wanna Learn A Love Song Lyrics

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I come fresh from the street

Fast on my feet kind a lean and lazy;

Not much meat on my bones and a whole lot alone

And more than a little bit crazy.

The old six string was all I had

To keep my belly still

And for each full hour lesson I gave

I got a crisp ten dollar bill.

She was married for seven years

To a concrete castle king.

She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar

And to hear her children sing.

So I'd show up about once a week

In my faded tight-legged jeans

With a backlog full of hobo stories

And dilapidated dreams.

She said "I wanna learn a love song full of happy things."

She said "I wanna learn a love song; won't you let me hear you sing?"

She said "I wanna learn a love song I wanna hear you play."

She said "I wanna learn a love song before you go away."

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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.

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.

She said "I wanna learn a love song full of happy things."

She said "I wanna learn a love song; won't you let me hear you sing?"

She said "I wanna learn a love song I wanna hear you play."

She said "I wanna learn a love song before you go away."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.

She said "I wanna learn a love song full of happy things."

She said "I wanna learn a love song; won't you let me hear you sing?"

She said "I wanna learn a love song I wanna hear you play."

She said "I wanna learn a love song before you go away."

I guess you know I stayed.

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