Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word Chords by Joan Baez
Tempo:
81.05 bpm
Chords used:
D
Am
Em
G
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[G]
[D] Seems like only yesterday [Em] I left my mind [D] behind
Down in the gypsy cafe [Em] with a friend of a friend of mine
[Bm] Who [D] sat with baby heavy on her [Am] knee
[D] Yet spoke of life most free from [Am] slavery
[D] With eyes that showed no trace of [Em] [Am] misery
[D] The phrase in connection [Am] first with she, [C] oh [D]
girl
That love is just a four letter [G]
word
Outside [D] around [Em] the break of day
[D] Me, I kept my mouth shut to you, [Em] I had no words to say
My [D]
experience was limited and [Am] underfed
[D] You were talking while [Am] I hid
To [D] the one who was the father [Am] of your kid
You [D]
probably didn't think I [Am] [C] did
But I [D]
heard you say that love is just a four letter [G]
word
I [D] said goodbye [Em] to my own games
[D] Drifting in an island, [Em] shunnable by name
[D]
Searching for my double, looking [Am] for
[D] Complete evaporation to [Am] the core
Though [D] I tried and failed at finding [Am] any door
[D] I must have thought that there was [Am] nothing more [C] [D]
absurd
Than that love is just a four [G] letter word
Though [D] I never asked what you meant [Em] when you were speaking to your man
[D] I could only think in terms of me [Em] and now I understand
[D] After waking enough times to [Am] think I see
The [D] holy kiss that's supposed to last [Am] eternity
[D] Blow up in smoke, it's [Am] destiny
[D] It falls on strangers, [Am] travels free
Yes [D] I know now traps are only set [Am] by me
And [D] I do not really need [Am] to be
[C] [D] Assured that love is just a four letter [G]
word
Strange [D] it is to be beside you when [Em] the end of tables turn
[D] You'd probably laugh if [Em] I told you all I've learned
[D] And it is very, very weird [Am] indeed
[D] To hear words like [Am] forever flee
Though [D] ships run through my mind I [Am] cannot cheat
It's [D] like looking in a teacher's [Am] face complete
[D] I can say nothing to you but [Am] repeat
[C] What I [D]
heard
That love is just a four letter [G] word
[D] Seems like only yesterday [Em] I left my mind [D] behind
Down in the gypsy cafe [Em] with a friend of a friend of mine
[Bm] Who [D] sat with baby heavy on her [Am] knee
[D] Yet spoke of life most free from [Am] slavery
[D] With eyes that showed no trace of [Em] [Am] misery
[D] The phrase in connection [Am] first with she, [C] oh [D]
girl
That love is just a four letter [G]
word
Outside [D] around [Em] the break of day
[D] Me, I kept my mouth shut to you, [Em] I had no words to say
My [D]
experience was limited and [Am] underfed
[D] You were talking while [Am] I hid
To [D] the one who was the father [Am] of your kid
You [D]
probably didn't think I [Am] [C] did
But I [D]
heard you say that love is just a four letter [G]
word
I [D] said goodbye [Em] to my own games
[D] Drifting in an island, [Em] shunnable by name
[D]
Searching for my double, looking [Am] for
[D] Complete evaporation to [Am] the core
Though [D] I tried and failed at finding [Am] any door
[D] I must have thought that there was [Am] nothing more [C] [D]
absurd
Than that love is just a four [G] letter word
Though [D] I never asked what you meant [Em] when you were speaking to your man
[D] I could only think in terms of me [Em] and now I understand
[D] After waking enough times to [Am] think I see
The [D] holy kiss that's supposed to last [Am] eternity
[D] Blow up in smoke, it's [Am] destiny
[D] It falls on strangers, [Am] travels free
Yes [D] I know now traps are only set [Am] by me
And [D] I do not really need [Am] to be
[C] [D] Assured that love is just a four letter [G]
word
Strange [D] it is to be beside you when [Em] the end of tables turn
[D] You'd probably laugh if [Em] I told you all I've learned
[D] And it is very, very weird [Am] indeed
[D] To hear words like [Am] forever flee
Though [D] ships run through my mind I [Am] cannot cheat
It's [D] like looking in a teacher's [Am] face complete
[D] I can say nothing to you but [Am] repeat
[C] What I [D]
heard
That love is just a four letter [G] word
Key:
D
Am
Em
G
C
D
Am
Em
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] Seems like only yesterday [Em] I left my mind [D] behind
Down in the gypsy cafe [Em] with a friend of a friend of mine
[Bm] Who [D] sat with baby heavy on her [Am] knee
[D] Yet spoke of life most free from [Am] slavery
_ _ [D] With eyes that showed no trace of [Em] [Am] misery
_ [D] The phrase in connection [Am] first with she, [C] oh [D]
girl
That love is just a four letter [G]
word
_ _ _ _ Outside [D] around _ _ _ [Em] the break of day
[D] Me, I kept my mouth shut to you, [Em] I had no words to say
My [D]
experience was limited and [Am] underfed
_ _ [D] You were talking while [Am] I hid
To [D] the one who was the father [Am] of your kid
You [D]
probably didn't think I [Am] [C] did
But I [D]
heard you say that love is just a four letter [G]
word
I _ _ _ _ [D] said goodbye _ [Em] to my own games
[D] Drifting in an island, _ _ [Em] shunnable by name
[D]
Searching for my double, looking [Am] for
_ [D] Complete evaporation to [Am] the core
Though [D] I tried and failed at finding [Am] any door
_ [D] I must have thought that there was [Am] nothing more [C] _ _ [D]
absurd
Than that love is just a four [G] letter word
_ Though _ _ [D] I never asked what you meant [Em] when you were speaking to your man
[D] I could only think in terms of me [Em] and now I understand
[D] After waking enough times to [Am] think I see
The [D] holy kiss that's supposed to last [Am] eternity
_ _ [D] Blow up in smoke, it's [Am] destiny
_ _ [D] It falls on strangers, [Am] travels free
Yes [D] I know now traps are only set [Am] by me
And [D] I do not really need [Am] to be
_ [C] [D] Assured _ _ that love is just a four letter [G] _
_ word
_ _ Strange [D] it is to be beside you when [Em] the end of tables turn
[D] You'd probably laugh if [Em] I told you all I've learned
[D] And it is very, very weird [Am] indeed
_ [D] To hear words like [Am] forever flee
Though [D] ships run through my mind I [Am] cannot cheat
It's [D] like looking in a teacher's [Am] face complete
_ _ [D] I can say nothing to you but [Am] repeat
[C] What I [D]
heard
_ That love is just a four letter [G] word
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] Seems like only yesterday [Em] I left my mind [D] behind
Down in the gypsy cafe [Em] with a friend of a friend of mine
[Bm] Who [D] sat with baby heavy on her [Am] knee
[D] Yet spoke of life most free from [Am] slavery
_ _ [D] With eyes that showed no trace of [Em] [Am] misery
_ [D] The phrase in connection [Am] first with she, [C] oh [D]
girl
That love is just a four letter [G]
word
_ _ _ _ Outside [D] around _ _ _ [Em] the break of day
[D] Me, I kept my mouth shut to you, [Em] I had no words to say
My [D]
experience was limited and [Am] underfed
_ _ [D] You were talking while [Am] I hid
To [D] the one who was the father [Am] of your kid
You [D]
probably didn't think I [Am] [C] did
But I [D]
heard you say that love is just a four letter [G]
word
I _ _ _ _ [D] said goodbye _ [Em] to my own games
[D] Drifting in an island, _ _ [Em] shunnable by name
[D]
Searching for my double, looking [Am] for
_ [D] Complete evaporation to [Am] the core
Though [D] I tried and failed at finding [Am] any door
_ [D] I must have thought that there was [Am] nothing more [C] _ _ [D]
absurd
Than that love is just a four [G] letter word
_ Though _ _ [D] I never asked what you meant [Em] when you were speaking to your man
[D] I could only think in terms of me [Em] and now I understand
[D] After waking enough times to [Am] think I see
The [D] holy kiss that's supposed to last [Am] eternity
_ _ [D] Blow up in smoke, it's [Am] destiny
_ _ [D] It falls on strangers, [Am] travels free
Yes [D] I know now traps are only set [Am] by me
And [D] I do not really need [Am] to be
_ [C] [D] Assured _ _ that love is just a four letter [G] _
_ word
_ _ Strange [D] it is to be beside you when [Em] the end of tables turn
[D] You'd probably laugh if [Em] I told you all I've learned
[D] And it is very, very weird [Am] indeed
_ [D] To hear words like [Am] forever flee
Though [D] ships run through my mind I [Am] cannot cheat
It's [D] like looking in a teacher's [Am] face complete
_ _ [D] I can say nothing to you but [Am] repeat
[C] What I [D]
heard
_ That love is just a four letter [G] word
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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