I Wanna Learn A Love Song - Harry Chapin

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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&apos 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 &quot I wanna learn a love song

full of happy things &quot

She said &quot I wanna learn a love song

Won&apos t you let me hear you sing &quot

She said &quot I wanna learn a love song

I wanna hear you play &quot

She said &quot I wanna learn a love song

before you go away &quot

So I tried to teach her a couple of chords

And an easy melody

But it always turned out she&apos 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 hear both of our heartbeats

But there was no place to hide

She said &quot I wanna learn a love song

full of happy things &quot

She said &quot I wanna learn a love song

Won&apos t you let me hear you sing &quot

She said &quot I wanna learn a love song

I wanna hear you play &quot

She said &quot I wanna learn a love song

before you go away &quot

Well I guess you know what happened

God I never been so clean

Yes I feel like I&apos 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&apos s

wife in the real world life

To make this boy a man

She said &quot I wanna learn a love song

full of happy things &quot

She said &quot I wanna learn a love song

Won&apos t you let me hear you sing &quot

She said &quot I wanna learn a love song

I wanna hear you play &quot

She said &quot I wanna learn a love song

before you go away &quot

I guess you know I stayed