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[[Category:The Smiths Lyrics]] [[Category:Covered by Morrissey / The Smiths]] [[File:Work is a four letter word label.jpg | thumb | right]] {{Songbox | Name = Work Is A Four-Letter Word | Album = [[Girlfriend In A Coma (single)|Girlfriend In A Coma]] | Length = 2:45 (Single version)<br>2:09 (Single edit) | Writer = Don Black / Guy Woolfenden | Producer = [[Producer::Grant Showbiz]]<br>Mixed by [[Stephen Street]] | Recorded = May 1987 | Release = August 1987 | ArtistType =The Smiths }} ==Information== This is a cover of a [[Mention::Cilla Black]] song which was the theme song for the 1968 film: [[Mention::Work Is A Four-Letter Word (film)]] Morrissey omits the first 3 lines of the song's lyrics and makes changes throughout. == Lyrics == <poem> 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! </poem> {{CommonSongSections | Artist = The Smiths | Song = {{#replace:{{#replace:{{PAGENAME}}| (single)|}}| (song)|}}}}
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