The Librarian by Hefner
Intro: G D7
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He started to woo her in the most peculiar way,
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The Librarian's dress was a fawnish shade of grey,
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The books he was to borrow he would surely never read,
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They had an intellectual caliber, he hoped
that she would see.
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He planned to take her home to bed some day,
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He'd smooth her goose bumped skin while she
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lay,
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But the unspoken thing they both knew,
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Whilst he'd dream of her often she would forget
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in just ten minutes.
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Her beauty has not truly been seen until her
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beauty's been seen by his tired eyes,
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Her tears have not truly been dried until her
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tears have been dried on his tattered shirt sleeves.
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He was beginning to irritate so she made him go away,
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The smallest cruelest insults she ignored his subtle ways.
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The deftly silence let him know his efforts were in vain,
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Did the words ever exist and if so could he find them.
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He planned to take her home to bed some day,
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He'd smooth her goose bumped skin while she
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lay,
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But the unspoken thing they both knew,
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Whilst he'd dream of her often she would forget
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in just ten minutes.
G Em C
Her beauty has not truly been seen until her
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beauty's been seen by his tired eyes,
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Her tears have not truly been dried until her
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tears have been dried on his tattered shirt sleeves.
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Her body has not truly been stripped till her
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clothes have been ripped by his nail bitten
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fingers,
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Her beauty has not truly been seen till her
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beauty's been seen by his tired eyes.
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and oh, on the loneliest of nights
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he will never hold her tight he will never kiss her eyelids