JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Bad Penny" adalah lagu dari Mipso yang dimuat dalam album Old Time Reverie.
Album tersebut dirilis secara mandiri oleh Mipso pada 2015.
Berisi total 11 lagu, album ini bergenre bluegrass.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Marianne dari Mipso
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Bad Penny" dari Mipso.
[Verse 1]
D
It all started when I kissed you
You smiled because you knew
C
There was something set in motion
G
Only currency could move
D
You led me to an empty bench inside a public park
C
You made me wait
You watched my watch
G
And watched the sky go dark
D
I looked around and got nervous
I heard a crying crow
C G
And a tiny circle rolled our way and settled in the snow
D
You pointed at that penny
And it pointed back at you
C G
And our great emancipator told yours truly what to do
[Chorus 1]
D
He said, "We've all got money
We've all got time
C
So, let's sell the house, sell the car
G
Sell the deed to a copper mine
D
Maybe the rock of ages is just another stone
C G
The tomb is empty, children: leave this livin’ world alone."
[Verse 2]
D
I grabbed your hand and hurried
Knew we didn't have much time
C G
We left the trail and ran like hell to make it out alive
D
We scurried under bushes like a field mouse from a snake
C G
I felt a tug upon my shirt sleeve from a beggar at the gate
D
He said, "Can you spare a nickle son, I'm down to my last two."
C
I said that I was done with change
G
So a dollar would have to do
D
But when first I touched my wallet
Then I realized my mistake
C G
Our great emancipator's big green head began to shake
[Chorus 2]
D
He said, "I'll see your penny and I’ll raise you ninety-nine
C G
Seems all your gods and prophets never reached the welfare line
D
Maybe the rock of ages is just another stone
C G
The tomb is empty, children: leave this livin’ world alone."
[Verse 3]
D
I tossed away that greenback and that beggar-man just laughed
C G
I hailed a speeding taxicab before it hurried past
D
He asked me, "Where to mister?"
Up to Sixth and Fifty-Third
C
I looked at you, you looked at me
G
And we didn't speak a word
D
There was silence in the city
As we passed under the moon
C G
And that taxi-man starting whistling some old antebellum tune
D
He turned around to face us 'neath the lights of Broadway
C
And that tall man in the tophat said
G
"There's something I've got to say:
[Chorus 3]
D
I don't want your money, just a minute of your time
C
You can sell your house, sell your kids
G
Sell your soul to the picket line
D
Maybe the rock of ages is just another stone
C G
The tomb is empty, children: leave this livin’ world alone."