JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Satu lagi lagu milik Frank Sinatra berisikan metafora tentang bagaimana waktu berlalu menghabiskan masa muda selain "September Song", yaitu "The September of My Years".
"The September of My Years" diciptakan Jimmy Van Heusen dan Sammy Cahn yang kemudian dipopulerkan Frank Sinatra dalam album bertajuk sama.
Album tersebut dirilis melalui label Reprise pada 1965 dalam bentuk piringan hitam dan pada 1986 dalam bentuk compact disk.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu September Song - Frank Sinatra
Meraih banyak sekali penghargaan, album ini dinobatkan sebagai album terbaik sepanjang masa dalam buku "All Time Top 1000 Albums" milik Colin Larkin dengan posisi 190.
Simak lirik dan chord lagu "September of My Years" - Frank Sinatra di bawah ini.
[Intro]
E7 Fmaj7-5/E Bm7-5/E E7 E7+5-9 E7-9
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One day you turn around and it's summer
A Fmaj7/A
Next day you turn around and it's fall
A E/G#
And the springs and the winters of a lifetime
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Whatever happened to them all?
A E/G#
As a man who has always had the wand'ring ways
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Now I'm reaching back for yesterdays
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'Til a long-forgotten love appears
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And I find that I'm sighing softly as I near
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September, the warm September of my years
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As I man who has never paused at wishing wells
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Now I'm watching children's carousels
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And their laughter's music to my ears
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And I find that I'm smiling gently as I near
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September, the warm September of my years
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The golden warm September of my
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years