JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Inggris, David Bowie, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “The Laughing Gnome”.
Lagu bergenre rock tersebut dirilis pada 1995 melalui label EMI Records.
“The Laughing Gnome” muncul dalam album studio ke-20 yang bertajuk London Boy.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “The Laughing Gnome” dari David Bowie:
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I was walking- down the high street- when I heard footsteps behind me,
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and there was a little old man in scarlet and grey, chuckling away.
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Well he trotted- back to my house- and he sat beside the telly,
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with his tiny hands on his tummy, chuckling away, chugging all day.
[spoken] "I ought to report you to the gnome office." "Gnome office, ha,ha,ha!"
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Ha,ha, ha!- Hee,hee, hee!- I'm a laughing gnome and you can't catch me.-