4B SONG You Can’t Hurry Love

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You Can’t Hurry Love

I need love, love to ease my mind No, I 9 bear to live my life alone
I1 need to find, find someone to call mine I grow impatient for a love to call my own
But mama said, But when I feel that I, I 10 go on
These precious words keep me hanging on
CHORUS
I remember mama said,
“You 2 hurry love
No, you just 3
wait” CHORUS
She said, “Love don’t come easy
“You can’t hurry love
It’s a game of give and take.”
No, you just have to wait”
You 4 hurry love, She said, “Trust, give it time
No, you just 5 wait No matter how long it takes”
You’ve got to trust, give it time
No, love, love don’t come easy
No matter how long it takes
But I keep on waiting
But how many heartaches Anticipating for that soft voice
6
I stand To talk to me at night
Before I find a love For some tender arms
To let me live again? To hold me tight
Right now the only thing I keep waiting
That keeps me hanging on I keep on waiting
When I feel my strength, yeah But it ain’t easy
Is almost gone It ain’t easy
But mama said,
I remember mama said,
You can’t hurry love
CHORUS
No, you just have to wait
How long 7 I wait She said, “Trust, give it time
How much more 8 I take No matter how long it takes”
Before loneliness will cause my heart
CHORUS
Heart to break?

SONG FACTS
GLOSSARY
This song was originally recorded by The Supremes in 1966 and reached
the top five in the UK that same year. The Supremes’ version is included
in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s list of “500 songs that shaped rock and
roll”. The song was used in the 1995 film Runaway Bride, with Julia Roberts
and Richard Gere.

220 American English File 2nd edition Teacher’s Book 3 Photocopiable © Oxford University Press 2014

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