Love is a sweet thing    (intro)    (sample)

 

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1. He was sitting on a corner with a bottle of beer,

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    and the same shopping cart he'd been pushing for years.

                 C                                  Am

    A big smile on his face like the first day of spring,

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    all the people looked the other way, but they heard him sing,

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    And he sang : "Lo...ve, love is a sweet thing ! "

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    He sang : "Lo...ve, love is a sweet thing ! "

 

               C                                Am

2. She shot out of Texas like a bullet from a gun,

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    with a van full of hippies and a band on the run.

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    She didn't want to be famous, she just wanted to play,

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    In old dive bars and pool halls she got upon stage.

                               C - Am                  Em               - G

    And she sang : "Lo...ve, love is a sweet thing ! "

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    She sang : "Lo...ve, love is a sweet thing ! "

 

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    It’s everywhere you look, if you look hard enough,

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    it's really not hard to see.

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    Yeah, once you put your arms around it,

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    you can never get too much,

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    love is a sweet, sweet thing.

 

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    It's in the smile of a stranger, in the eyes of a child,

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    on the corner of a crowded street.

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    It's everywhere around us, it's always growing wild,

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    Love is a sweet, sweet thing.

 

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    Love,        love is a sweet thing,

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    I sing : love, love, love, love is a sweet thing.

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    Lo...ve, love is a sweet thing, oh yes it is !

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    I sing : love, love, love, love is a sweet, sweet thing,    oh, baby !

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    Lo...ve, love is a sweet thing, oho !

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    I sing :  lov...e, love is a sweet, sweet thing !

 

(capo 4th)               

 

    (Faith Hill)