Chapin Harry
Verities And Balderdash
I Wanna Learn A Love Song
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 lessson 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 Id 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 wont 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.
So I tried to teach her a couple of chords
And an easy melody
But it always turned out shed 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 wont 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 Im 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 mans 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 wont 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.