Lirik dan Chord Lagu Shine – Joni Mitchell

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

Lagu bergenre folk tersebut dirilis pada 1971 melalui label rekaman Warner Records.

“Shine” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk Blue.

Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu The Sire of Sorrow Jobs Sad Song – Joni Mitchell

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Shine” dari Joni Mitchell:

[Verse]
G                  A    Asus4
Oh, let your little light shine
D            G           A
Let your little light shine
B                 Bm       Em7
Shine on Vegas and Wall Street
Em7        A
Place your bets
A
Shine on all the fishermen
G
With nothing in their nets
G                                 Em
Shine on rising oceans and evaporating seas
A                          D
Shine on our Frankenstein technologies
G             Gm7
Shine on science
Em
With its tunnel vision, tunnel vision
A
Shine on fertile farmlands
D             A          D
Buried under subdivisions
G              D          A
Oh, let your little light shine
D              G           A
Oh, let your little light shine
Bm
Shine on the dazzling darkness
Em
That restores us in deep sleep
A
Shine on what we throw away
A
And what we keep
G
Shine on Reverend Pearson
Em
Who threw away
Em
The vain old God
A
And kept Dickens and Rembrandt and Beethoven
D
And fresh plowed sod
G
Shine on good earth, good air, good water
Em
And a safe place
Em
For kids to play
A
Shine on bombs exploding
A
Half a mile away
D           G                 A
Oh, let your little light shine
D7               G             A
Let your little light shine, shine, shine
Bm
Shine on worldwide traffic jams
G                         Em
Honking day and night
A
Shine on another asshole
A
Passing on the right
G
Shine on all the red light runners
Em
Busy talking on their cell phones
A
Shine on the Catholic Church
D
And the prisons that it owns
G
Shine on all the Churches
Em
They all love less and less
A
Shine on a hopeful girl
A
In a dreamy dress
D        G         A
Oh, let your little light shine
F#m            D     G
Shine, shine, shine
A       G              Bm
Let your little light shine
Bm
Shine on good humor
Em            C
Shine on good will
A
Shine on lousy leadership
A
Licensed to kill
G
Shine on dying soldiers
Em
In patriotic pain
A
Shine on mass destruction
D
In some God's name
G
Shine on the pioneers
Em                  A
Those seekers of mental health
A
Craving simplicity
A
They traveled inward
D
Past themselves
D
Let their little lights shine
E          D
May all their little lights shine