Lirik dan Chord Lagu Slap Leather - James Taylor

Lagu tersebut dimuat sebagai trek ke-6 dalam album studio ke-30 miliknya yang bertajuk New Moon Shine.

Album yang berisikan 12 trek tersebut dirilis secara resmi pada 1991 melalui label Columbia Records.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Slap Leather” dari James Taylor:

[Verse 1]

A7

Take all the money that we need for school

A7

And to keep the street people in out of the cold

A7

Spend it on a weapon you can never use

A7

Make the world an offer that they can't refuse

[Verse 2]

A7

Open up the door and let the shark-men feed

A7

Hoover of the future in the land of greed

A7

Sell the Ponderosa to the Japanese

[Chorus]

A7

Slap leather

                      D7

Head for that line of trees, yeah

A7

Slap leather

     E7+9                      A7

Go on Ron, just about to go myself

[Verse 3]

A7+9      A7

Turn the whole wide world into a TV show

A7

So it's just the same game wherever you go

A7

You never meet a soul that you don't already know

A7

One big advertisement for the status quo

[Verse 4]

A7

As if these celebrities were your close friends

A7

As if you knew how the story ends

A7

As if you weren't sitting in a room alone

A7                                                  D7

And there was somebody real at the other end of the phone, yeah

[Chorus]

     A7

Squibnocket

      E7+9

Phone sex

                          A7

Just about to dial your number

[Instrumental]

A7

[Verse 5]

A7

Get all worked up so we can go to war

A7

We find something worth killing for

A7

Tie a yellow ribbon around your eyes

                                  D7

Big McFalafel and a side of fries, yeah

[Chorus]

        A7

Big McFalafel

         E7+9

Storming Norman

              A7

I just love a parade

[Chorus]

       D7

Slap leather

          A7

Phone love

       E7+9

Big McFalafel

                    A7

Just about to dial myself