JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “Tell Me When the Whistle Blows” adalah lagu yang dimiliki oleh penyanyi kenamaan asal Inggris, Elton John.
Lagu tersebut muncul sebagai trek keempat di dalam album kesembilannya yang bertajuk Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
Album yang diproduseri oleh Gus Dudgeon itu dirilis melalui MCA Records dan DJM Records pada tahun 1975.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Tell Me When the Whistle Blows” dari Elton John.
[Intro]
Dm
[Verse]
Dm C - Dm
There's a dusty old gutter he's lying in now.
Dm
Umm, he's blind and he's old.
G7 A Dm
And there's a bottle that rolls down the road.
Dm C - Dm
Me I'm young and I'm so wild - and I still feel the need
G A Bm
of your apron strings once in a while.
A E G7 Dm
For there's taxicabs hooting, but I can't be footloose forever.
A E
My suitcase it's a cheap one. My darling she's a dear one.
G7 C
My head's feeling light as a feather.
[Chorus]
G7 Dm
Take my ears and tell me when the whistle blows.
G7 Dm
Wake me up and tell me when the whistle blows.
Dm A Bm G7
Long lost and lonely boy you're just a black sheep going home.
Dm A G7 D A G7
I want to feel your wheels of steel - underneath my itching heels.
D G7 A7 Bm D F# D B D F# D
Take my money - tell me when the whistle blows.
Dm C - Dm
Part of me asked the young man for the time
Dm G7 A Dm
With a cool vacant stare - of undue concern he said, "Nine".
Dm C - Dm
It's not so bad but I really do love the land.
Dm G A Bm
And rather all this than those diamante lovers in Hyde Park holding hands.
A E G7 Dm
Blowing heat through my fingers trying to kill off this cold.
A E
Will the street kids remember? Can I still shoot a fast cue?
G7 C
Has this country kid still got his soul?