Lirik dan Chord Lagu The Hissing of Summer Lawns – Joni Mitchell

Lagu bergenre folk tersebut dirilis pada 1966 melalui label rekaman Warner Records.

“The Hissing of Summer Lawns” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk Clouds.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” dari Joni Mitchell:

[Intro]
Bm7 C/B
Bm7 Dm7/A

[Verse 1]
      D7sus2         Bm7
He bought her a diamond for her throat,
                           D/G
He put her in a ranch house on a hill,
Daug/E                                                            E7
She could see the valley barbecues from her window sill,
E7 (E6/C#) (EmM7/C) Gmaj7/B     Gmaj7/A
See the blue pools in the squinting sun,
                                        Bm7
Hear the hissing of summer lawns

[Verse 2]
Dm7/A  D7sus2  Bm7                D/G
He put up a barbed wire fence to keep out the unknown,
              Daug/E                                 E7
And on every metal thorn just a little blood of his own,
E7 (E6/C#)(EmM7/C) Gmaj7/B                           Gmaj7/A
                             She patrols that fence of his to a latin drum,
                                        G/D
And the hissing of summer lawns

[Bridge]
G/D F/D
(Dark - ness!) Wonder makes it easy,
G/D F/D
(Dark - ness!) With a joyful mask,
G/D F/D D7sus2
(Dark - ness!) Tube's gone, darkness,
Dm7        D7sus2          Dm7             D7sus2
Darkness, darkness, no colour, no con - trast

[Break]
Bbmaj7 Ebmaj7

Dm7

Dm7 Cm7 Bm7b5                               E7* E7(#5) E7*
Dah, dah, dawm, dwee - dawm! Dah, dwee - dawm!

Bm/A                                  Bm7 Dm7/A
 Beh - dah - don, dwee - da!

[Verse 3]
Bm7                              D/G
Diamond dog carrying a cup and a cane,
                            Daug/E
Looking through a double glass,
                   E7                          E7
Looking at too much pride, and too much shame,
                  Gmaj7
There's a black fly buzzing,
                                                 Gmaj7/A
There's a heatwave burning in her master's voice,
                          Bm Bmadd11 Bm
Hissing summer lawns

[Verse 4]
Dm7/A   D7sus2     Bm7
He gave her his darkness to regret,
     D/G
And good reason to quit him,
                            Daug/E                     E7
He gave her a roomful of Chippendale that nobody sits in,
E7 (E6/C#) (EmM7/C) Gmaj7/B
Still, she stays with a love of some kind,
            Gmaj7/A
It's the lady's choice,
                                     G/D                F/D            G/D F/D
The hissing of summer lawns (Dark - ness! It's dark - ness!)