Lirik dan Chord Lagu Slap Leather - James Taylor

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “Slap Leather” merupakan salah satu lagu yang dipopulerkan oleh penyanyi-penulis lagu asal Amerika Serikat, James Taylor.

Lagu tersebut dimuat sebagai trek ke-6 dalam album studio ke-30 miliknya yang bertajuk New Moon Shine.

Album yang berisikan 12 trek tersebut dirilis secara resmi pada 1991 melalui label Columbia Records.

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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Slap Leather” dari James Taylor:

[Verse 1]

A7

Take all the money that we need for school

A7

And to keep the street people in out of the cold

A7

Spend it on a weapon you can never use

A7

Make the world an offer that they can't refuse

[Verse 2]

A7

Open up the door and let the shark-men feed

A7

Hoover of the future in the land of greed

A7

Sell the Ponderosa to the Japanese

[Chorus]

A7

Slap leather

                      D7

Head for that line of trees, yeah

A7

Slap leather

     E7+9                      A7

Go on Ron, just about to go myself

[Verse 3]

A7+9      A7

Turn the whole wide world into a TV show

A7

So it's just the same game wherever you go

A7

You never meet a soul that you don't already know

A7

One big advertisement for the status quo

[Verse 4]

A7

As if these celebrities were your close friends

A7

As if you knew how the story ends

A7

As if you weren't sitting in a room alone

A7                                                  D7

And there was somebody real at the other end of the phone, yeah

[Chorus]

     A7

Squibnocket

      E7+9

Phone sex

                          A7

Just about to dial your number

[Instrumental]

A7

[Verse 5]

A7

Get all worked up so we can go to war

A7

We find something worth killing for

A7

Tie a yellow ribbon around your eyes

                                  D7

Big McFalafel and a side of fries, yeah

[Chorus]

        A7

Big McFalafel

         E7+9

Storming Norman

              A7

I just love a parade

[Chorus]

       D7

Slap leather

          A7

Phone love

       E7+9

Big McFalafel

                    A7

Just about to dial myself