WORK IS A FOUR LETTER WORD
Title song from the film "Work Is A Four Letter Word" (1968)
(Don Black / Guy Woolfenden)


Cilla Black (Film Soundtrack) - 1968
The Smiths - 1987


There are girls that some men would slave for
To provide the things that they pray for
Why do you think work is a four letter word

Loving you is driving me crazy
People say that you were born lazy
'Cause you think that work is a four letter word

Don't waste your life
There is so much I know you can do
Let me see you wide awake
And take all the world that is waiting for you

If you try, I'll be right behind you
And my love will help to remind you
To forget that work is a four letter word

I don't want a house that's a showplace
I just feel that we're getting no place
While you say that work is a four letter word

Don't waste your life
There is so much I know you can do
Let me see you wide awake
And take all the world that is waiting for you

If you try, I'll be right behind you
And my love will help to remind you
To forget that work is a four letter word

I don't want a house that's a showplace
I just feel that we're getting no place
While you say that work is a four letter word
Four letter word!





(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - September 2015)