JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "When I'm Dead and Gone" merupakan lagu yang pertama kali dilantunkan oleh McGuinness Flint.
Lagu ini juga pernah dibawakan oleh Joe Brown untuk album panjangnya yang berjudul The Ukulele Album.
Lirik lagu "When I'm Dead and Gone" diciptakan oleh Benny Gallagher dan Graham Lyle.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord I and I - Bob Dylan
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "When I'm Dead and Gone" dari McGuinness Flint:
[Intro]
D G (G5)(Gmaj7)(G6) [x2]
[Verse 1]
D G (G5)(Gmaj7)(G6)
Oh, I love you baby, I love you night and day,
D G (G5)(Gmaj7)(G6)
When I leave you, baby, don’t cry the night away,
D G (G5)(Gmaj7)(G6)
When I die, don't you write no words upon my tomb,
D G (G5)(Gmaj7)(G6)
I don't believe I want to leave no epitaph of doom
[Chorus]
D A Bm G
Woh, hoh - oo, oh, when I'm dead and gone,
(G5)(Gmaj7) (G6) D A D G A
I wanna leave some happy woman living on,
D A Bm G
Woh, hoh - oo, oh, when I'm dead and gone,
(G5)(Gmaj7)(G6) D A G D
Don’t want nobody to mourn beside my grave-----
[Verse 2]
D G (G5)(Gmaj7)(G6)
Old Mama Linda, she's out to get my hide,
D G (G5)(Gmaj7)(G6)
She's got a shotgun, and her daughter by her side,
D G (G5)(Gmaj7)(G6)
Hey, there ladies, Johnson's free,
D
Who's got the love? Who's got enough...
G (G5)(Gmaj7)(G6)
...To keep a man like me?
[Chorus]
D A Bm G
Woh, hoh - oo, oh, when I'm dead and gone,
(G5)(Gmaj7) (G6) D A D G A
I wanna leave some happy woman living on,
D A Bm G
Woh, hoh - oo, oh, when I'm dead and gone,
(G5)(Gmaj7)(G6) D A G D
Don’t want nobody to mourn beside my grave-----!
[Dobro and Kazoo break]
D G (G5)(Gmaj7)(G6) [4x]
[Chorus]
D A Bm G
Woh, hoh - oo, oh, when I'm dead and gone,
(G5)(Gmaj7)(G6) D A D G A
Don’t want nobody to mourn beside my grave, hey----,
D A Bm G (G5)
Woh, hoh - oo, oh, when I'm dead and gone,
(When I'm...
(Gmaj7)(G6) D A G D
Don’t want nobody to mourn beside my grave------!
...dead and gone! Don’t want nobody to mourn------!)
[Break]
D G A D G A [2x]
[Coda]
D G A
Oo - la, na - na! Hey, ey - ey! [Repeats and fades]
[Suggestion for ending]
D G (G5)(Gmaj7)(G6) D