Lirik dan Chord Lagu The Magdalene Laundries – Joni Mitchell

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Kanada, Joni Mitchell, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “The Magdalene Laundries”.

Lagu bergenre folk tersebut dirilis pada 1999 melalui label rekaman Reprise Records.

“The Magdalene Laundries” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk Tears Of Stone.

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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “The Magdalene Laundries” dari Joni Mitchell:

Capo di fret ke-2

[Intro]
C Em C D A7sus2

[Verse 1]
G                                   Em
I was an unmarried girl, I'd just turned twenty-seven
G                                                         Em
When they sent me to the sisters for the way men looked at me
C                                        Em
Branded as a Jezebel I knew I was not bound for Heaven
            C                               D              A7sus2
I'd be cast in shame into the Magdalene laundries

[Verse 2]
G                                          Em
Most girls come here pregnant,some by their own fathers
G                                           Em
Bridget got that belly by her parish priest,
C                                                                          Em
We're trying to get things white as snow, all of us woe-begotten daughters
             C                               D                 A7sus2
In the streaming stains of the Magdalene laundries

[Bridge]
C                                     Em
Prostitutes and destitutes and temptresses like me
C                                       Em
Fallen women sentenced into dreamless drudgery
C                                                             Em
Why do they call this heartless place Our Lady of Charity?
         C
Oh, charity

[Verse 3]
G                                                                       Em
These bloodless brides of Jesus If they had just once glimpsed their groom, then they'd know
G                                                                              Em
and they'd drop the stones concealed behind their rosaries
C                                                                         Em
They wilt the grass they walk upon they leech the light out of a room
                     C                                               D           A7sus2
They'd like to drive us down the drain at the Magdalene laundries

[Verse 4]
G                                       Em
Peg O'Connell died today, she was a cheeky gir, a flirt, they just stuffed her in a hole!
G                                                       Em
Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring!
C                                                              Em
One day I'm going to die here too and they'll plant me in the dirt
C                                                          Em
Like some lame bulb hat never blooms, come any spring
             G          Em G Em C Em C
Not any spring