Standard (EADGBE)

 Asked my Daddy when I was thirteen

 "Daddy can you tell me what love really means?"

 His eyes went glassy, not a word was said

 He poured another beer and his face turned red

 Asked my mother, she acted the same

 She never looked up, she seemed so ashamed

 Asked my teacher, he reached for the cane

 He said "don't mention that subject again"

Chorus

 So I read about love, I read it in a magazine

 Read about love, cosmo and seventeen

 Read about love, in the back of a hustler, hustler, hustler

 So I know what makes girls sigh

 And I know why girls cry

 So don't tell me I don't understand

 What makes a woman and what makes a man

 I've never been to heaven but at least I've read about love

My big brother told me when I was fourteen

"It's time I showed you what love really means

Girls like kissing and romance too

But a boy's got to know what a man's got to do"

He gave me a book, the cover was plain

Written by a doctor with a German name

It had glossy pictures, serious stuff

I read it seven time then I knew it well enough

CHORUS #2;

Read about love, now I've got you

Read about love, where I want you

Read about love, I got you on the test-bed, test-bed, test-bed

So why, don't you moan and sigh?

And why do you sit there and cry?

I do everything I'm supposed to do

If something's wrong than it must be you

I know the ways of a woman I've read about love

Well well well, when I touch you there it's supposed to feel nice

That's what it said in reader's advice

I've never been to heaven but at least I've read about love

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