JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Kanada, Joni Mitchell, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “The Hissing of Summer Lawns”.
Lagu bergenre folk tersebut dirilis pada 1966 melalui label rekaman Warner Records.
“The Hissing of Summer Lawns” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk Clouds.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” dari Joni Mitchell:
[Intro]
Bm7 C/B
Bm7 Dm7/A
[Verse 1]
D7sus2 Bm7
He bought her a diamond for her throat,
D/G
He put her in a ranch house on a hill,
Daug/E E7
She could see the valley barbecues from her window sill,
E7 (E6/C#) (EmM7/C) Gmaj7/B Gmaj7/A
See the blue pools in the squinting sun,
Bm7
Hear the hissing of summer lawns
[Verse 2]
Dm7/A D7sus2 Bm7 D/G
He put up a barbed wire fence to keep out the unknown,
Daug/E E7
And on every metal thorn just a little blood of his own,
E7 (E6/C#)(EmM7/C) Gmaj7/B Gmaj7/A
She patrols that fence of his to a latin drum,
G/D
And the hissing of summer lawns
[Bridge]
G/D F/D
(Dark - ness!) Wonder makes it easy,
G/D F/D
(Dark - ness!) With a joyful mask,
G/D F/D D7sus2
(Dark - ness!) Tube's gone, darkness,
Dm7 D7sus2 Dm7 D7sus2
Darkness, darkness, no colour, no con - trast
[Break]
Bbmaj7 Ebmaj7
Dm7
Dm7 Cm7 Bm7b5 E7* E7(#5) E7*
Dah, dah, dawm, dwee - dawm! Dah, dwee - dawm!
Bm/A Bm7 Dm7/A
Beh - dah - don, dwee - da!
[Verse 3]
Bm7 D/G
Diamond dog carrying a cup and a cane,
Daug/E
Looking through a double glass,
E7 E7
Looking at too much pride, and too much shame,
Gmaj7
There's a black fly buzzing,
Gmaj7/A
There's a heatwave burning in her master's voice,
Bm Bmadd11 Bm
Hissing summer lawns
[Verse 4]
Dm7/A D7sus2 Bm7
He gave her his darkness to regret,
D/G
And good reason to quit him,
Daug/E E7
He gave her a roomful of Chippendale that nobody sits in,
E7 (E6/C#) (EmM7/C) Gmaj7/B
Still, she stays with a love of some kind,
Gmaj7/A
It's the lady's choice,
G/D F/D G/D F/D
The hissing of summer lawns (Dark - ness! It's dark - ness!)