Work Is A Four-Letter Word

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THE SMITHS song
Name Work Is A Four-Letter Word
Album/single Girlfriend In A Coma
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 1968 film: Work Is A Four-Letter Word (film)

Morrissey omits the first 3 lines of the song's lyrics and makes changes throughout.

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!

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