Love Song To A Stranger

Joan Baez

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 How long since I've spent a whole night in a twin bed with a stranger
 C
His warm arms all around me?
 CCmaj7F
 How long since I've gazed into dark eyes that melted my soul down
 C
To a place where it longs to be?
 EmF
 All of your history has little to do with your face
 BbFC
You're mainly a mystery with violins filling in space 

 CG
There is a little bass run after each verse, moving from - in something like
then back for the start of the next verse. Some verses open with a little bass run as well,
 FC
a-b-c. Finally, a much more important one goes with the last move from  to  
by humming or singing. It's f-a-bb-c. Rest of the verses (the last has only the first
twice):

You stood in the nude by the mirror and picked out a rose
From the bouquet in our hotel
And lay down beside me again and I watched the rose
On the pillow where it fell
I sank and I slept in a twilight with only one care
To know that when day broke and I woke that you'd still be there

The hours for once they passed slowly, unendingly by
Like a sweet breeze on a field
Your gentleness came down upon me and I guess I thanked you
When you caused me to yield
We spoke not a sentence and took not a footstep beyond
Our two days together which seemingly soon would be gone

Don't tell me of love everlasting and other sad dreams
I don't want to hear
Just tell me of passionate strangers who rescue each other
From a lifetime of cares
Because if love means forever, expecting nothing returned
Then I hope I'll be given another whole lifetime to learn

Because you gave to me oh so many things it makes me wonder
How they could belong to me
And I gave you only my dark eyes that melted your soul down
To a place where it longs to be


Bb C Cmaj7 Em F G
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