Love Child

Intro:  (Am G/A D/A) x2  Am E/G# G 
D/F# F E

Bm                               
 You think that I don't feel love, 
C
but what I feel for you is real love
Am                                
 In other's eyes I see reflected, 
   F     -     E7
a hurt, scorned, rejected

Am           G                  
Love child, never meant to be, 
F           E
love child, born in poverty
Am           G                  
Love child, never meant to be, 
F           E
love child, take a look at me

   Am                    G/A      
I started my life, in an old, 
  D/A     Am
cold, rundown tenement slum 
(tenement slum)
   G/A              D/A     
My father left, he never even 
   Am
married Mom
   E/G#                G        
I shared the guilt my Mama knew,
D/F#             F             E
 so afraid that others knew I had no
 name

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Bm                             C
 This love we're contemplatin', is 
worth the pain of waitin'
Am                        F      -
 We'll only end up hatin', the 
       E7
child we may be creatin'

Am           G                  
Love child, never meant to be, 
F           E
love child, scorned by society
Am            G                  
Love child, always second best, 
F           E
love child, different from the rest

Am                    G/A   D/A 
  (Hold on, hold on), mmmm, baby
Am                    G/A   D/A
 (hold on, hold on), mmmm, baby

Am                     G/A        
I started school, in a worn, torn 
 D/A           Am
dress that somebody threw out
  G/A             D/A             
I knew the way it felt, to always 
Am
live in doubt
  E/G#             G            
to be without the simple things,
D/F#             F               
 so afraid my friends would see 
     E
the guilt in me

Bm                               
 Don't think that I don't need ya, 
C
don't think I don't wanna please ya
Am                                
 But no child of mine'll be 
    F      -    E7
bearin', the name of shame I've been
 wearin'

Am                       G       
Love child, love child, never 
             F                E
quite as good, afraid, ashamed, 
misunderstood

    Am           G         F 
But I'll always love you, I'll, 
           E           Am
always love you hoo hoo
             G          F         
I'll always love you,  I'll, 
    E          Am
always love you hoo hoo
             G         F          
I'll always love you, I'll,  
   E           Am
always love you hoo hoo
         G            F       
You hoo hoo, you hoo hoo, I'll, 
          E           Am
always love you hoo hoo