Love Song To A Stranger Chords
by Joan Baez
Love Song To A Stranger by Joan Baez is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Cmaj7, F, G, Em and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C Cmaj7 F C G
C Cmaj7 F
How long since I've spent a whole night in a twin bed with a stranger
C G
His warm arms all around me?
C Cmaj7 F
How long since I've gazed into dark eyes that melted my soul down
C G
To a place where it longs to be?
Em F
All of your history has little to do with your face
Bb F C G
You're mainly a mystery with violins filling in space
C Cmaj7 F
You stood in the nude by the mirror and picked out a rose,
G
from the bouquet in our hotel
C Cmaj7 F
And lay down beside me again and I watched the rose,
C G
on the pillow as it fell
Em F
I sank and I slept in a twilight with only one care;
Bb F
to know that when day broke and I woke, that you'd still be there,
C
you d still be there
C Cmaj7 F
The hours for once they passed slowly, unendingly by
C G
Like a sweet breeze on a field
C Cmaj7 F
Your gentleness came down upon me and I guess I thanked you,
C G
When you caused me to yield
Em F
We spoke not a sentence and took not a footstep beyond
Bb F
Our two days together which seemingly soon would be gone,
C
Soon would be gone
C Cmaj7 F
Don't tell me of love everlasting and other sad dreams,
C G
I don't want to hear
C Cmaj7 F
Just tell me of passionate strangers who rescue each other
C G
From a lifetime of cares
Em F
Because if love means forever, expecting nothing returned
Bb F
Then I hope I'll be given another whole lifetime to learn,
C
ummmmmmm
C Cmaj7 F
Because you gave to me oh so many things it makes me wonder;
C G
how they could belong to me?
C Cmaj7 F
And I gave you only my dark eyes that melted your soul down;
C G
to a place where it longs to be