Lirik dan Chord Lagu A Strange Boy - Joni Mitchell

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Joni Mitchell merupakan penyanyi-penulis lagu asal Kanada yang memopulerkan lagu berjudul “A Strange Boy”.

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.

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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]
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