Lirik dan Chord Lagu A Strange Boy - Joni Mitchell

Lagu yang direkam di studio A&M, Hollywood, ini muncul dalam album studio kedelapan miliknya yang bertajuk Hejira.

Album tersebut dirilis secara resmi pada November 1976 melalui label Asylum Records.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “A Strange Boy” dari Joni Mitchell:

[Intro]
| D    | D    | D     | D     |   x2

[Verse 1]
D              Bm
A strange boy is weaving
A                                   Gsus2
A course of grace and havoc
         G                             Gsus2
On a yellow skateboard
                                    D
Thru midday sidewalk traffic
D                                  Bm
Just when I think he's foolish and childish
A                                 Gsus2
And I want him to be manly
   G                                  Gsus2
I catch my fool and my child
                             D
Needing love and understanding

[Verse 2]
Gsus2                         G
        What a strange strange boy
Gsus2                                 G
        He still lives with his family
C                                 F
Even the war and the navy
D                                  D  C  D
Couldn't bring him to maturity

[Verse 3]
D                                          Bm
He keeps referring back to school days
A                              Gsus2
And clinging to his child
G
Fidgeting and bullied
Gsus2                                          D
        His crazy wisdom holding onto something wild
D                             Bm
He asked me to be patient
           A
Well I failed
                  Gsus2
"Grow up!" I cried
        G                                              Gsus2
And as the smoke was clearing he said
                                            D
"Give me one good reason why"

[Verse 4]
Gsus2                           G
         What a strange strange boy
Gsus2                                 G
         He sees the cars as sets of waves
C                              F
Sequences of mass and space
D                              C          D
He sees the damage in my face

[Verse 5]
D                        Bm
We got high on travel
A                                  Gsus2
And we got drunk on alcohol
             G                             Gsus2                           D
And on love the strongest poison and medicine of all
D                                                 Bm
See how that feeling comes and goes
A                                Gsus2
Like the pull of moon on tides
G
Now I am surf rising
Gsus2                                   D
         Now parched ribs of sand at his side

[Verse 6]
Gsus2                           G
         What a strange strange boy
Gsus2                                      G
         I gave him clothes and jewelry
C                                F
I gave him my warm body
D                           C       D
I gave him power over me

[Verse 7]
D                                  Bm
A thousand glass eyes were staring
A                          Gsus2
In a cellar full of antique dolls
G
I found an old piano
Gsus2                                      D
         And sweet chords rose up in waxed New England halls
D                                      Bm
While the boarders were snoring
            A                                Gsus2
Under crisp white sheets of curfew
               G
We were newly lovers then
               Gsus2                                  D               Bm  A  D
We were fire in the stiff blue-haired house rules

[Outro]
| G | Gsus2 | D | D |
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