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I Wanna Learn a Love Song

释义

Background
Simple Song
Chart Performance
Weekly Charts Year-End Charts
Other Uses
References

{{Infobox song
| name = I Wanna Learn a Love Song
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Harry Chapin
| album = Verities & Balderdash
| B-side = She Sings Songs Without Words
| released = August 1974
| format =
| recorded = 1974
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Folk rock
| length = 3:39
| label = Elektra Records
| writer = Harry Chapin
| producer = Paul Leka
| prev_title = What Made America Famous?
| prev_year = 1974
| next_title = Dreams Go By
| next_year = 1975
}}

"I Wanna Learn a Love Song" is a song written and performed by Harry Chapin. The song was included on his 1974 album, Verities & Balderdash. The song is about a guitar teacher who gives guitar lessons to a woman who is falling in love with him.

Background

The song is a true story about how Chapin met his wife Sandra Chapin. The song starts out showing a guitar teacher who only has his guitar to "Keep his belly still". For each lesson, he got a "crisp ten dollar bill". The woman in the song says that she wants to play the guitar and hear her children sing with her. As the song goes on, he tried to teach her some chords, but she only wants to listen to him and his guitar. Finally, she met him in the living room when the house was dark. He could hear her husband playing poker with his friends in the next room over, and he could hear his own heartbeat. Towards the end of the song, it is implied that he and the woman had sex.^[1]

Simple Song

Simple Song is an unreleased version of the song. It was removed from the album, Sniper and Other Love Songs. The song itself is very much similar to "I Wanna Learn a Love Song", with some lyrical changes and is sung in a much softer voice. The song was released in a 2004 double album with Sniper and Other Love Songs and Heads & Tales, but only to Europe. It included a total of 8 unreleased tracks (1 from Heads & Tales and 7 from Sniper and Other Love Songs).^[2]

Chart Performance

Weekly Charts

Chart (1974–75)	Peak position
Australia	75
Canada	36 ^[3]
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	7 ^[4]
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	44 ^[5]
U.S. Cash Box Top 100	40

Year-End Charts

Chart (1975)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	276 ^[6]

Other Uses

Donna Fargo created a version of the song with virtually the same lyrics, but from the woman's point of view.
José Feliciano covered the song.

References

1. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=14563| title = Song Facts, I Wanna Learn a Love Song|}}
2. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.allmusic.com/album/heads-tales-sniper-other-love-songs-mw0000478307 | title = All Music, Heads & Tales and Sniper and Other Love Songs|}}
3. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.3930a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.3930a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.3930a | title = Canadian Music Charts, I Wanna Learn a Love Song at #36|}}
4. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.song-database.com/song.php?sid=7963&from=spu | title = Song Database, I Wanna Learn a Love Song|}}
5. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.song-database.com/song.php?sid=7963&from=spu | title = Song Database, I Wanna Learn a Love Song|}}
6. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.bullfrogspond.com/whitburn/1975wye.htm | title = 1975 Year End|}}

5 : 1974 songs|Elektra Records singles|Harry Chapin songs|Songs written by Harry Chapin|Song recordings produced by Paul Leka

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