Work Is A Four-Letter Word

THE SMITHS song
Name	Work Is A Four-Letter Word
Album/single	Girlfriend In A Coma (single)
Length	2:45 (Single version) 2:09 (Single edit)
Writer/composer	Don Black / Guy Woolfenden
Producer	Grant Showbiz Mixed by Stephen Street
Release	August 1987
Recorded	May 1987

Information

This is a cover of a Cilla Black song which was the theme song for the film of the same name: "Work Is A Four-Letter Word" (1968)

Lyrics

There are girls that some men will slave for To provide the things that they pay 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 on the world that is waiting for you
If you cry 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 show place 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 on the world that is waiting for you
If you cry 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 show place I just feel that we're getting no place While you say that work is a four-letter word Four-letter word!

Live History

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