JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Song to Woody" adalah lagu yang diciptakan oleh penyanyi Bob Dylan.
Dirilis pada 1962, lagu ini dimuat dalam album debut eponimnya, Bob Dylan.
Bob menciptakan lagu ini sebagai wujud apresiasinya terhadap legenda musik folk Amerika, Woody Guthrie.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Song to Woody" dari Bob Dylan.
[Verse 1]
G D/F# G
I'm out here a thousand miles from my home
C G/B D/A G
Walkin' a road other men have gone down
G D/F# G
I'm seein' your world of people and things
G G/D D/A G
Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings
[Verse 2]
G D/F# G
Hey hey Woody Guthrie I wrote you a song
C G/B D/A G
'Bout a funny old world that's comin' along
G D/F# G
Seems sicked it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn
G G/D D/A G
It looks like it's a-dyin' and it's hardly been born
[Verse 3]
G D/F# G
Hey hey Woody Guthrie but I know that you know
C G/B D/A G
All the things that I'm sayin' and a many times more
G D/F# G
I'm singin' you this song, but I can't sing enough
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'Cause there's not many men that done the things that you done
[Verse 4]
G D/F# G
Here's to Cisco and Sonny and Leadbelly too
C G/B D/A G
And to all the good people that traveled with you
G D/F# G
Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men
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That come with the dust and are gone with the wind
[Verse 5]
G D/F# G
I'm leavin' tomorrow but I could leave today
C G/B D/A G
Somewhere down the road someday
G D/F# G
The very last thing that I'd want to do
G G/D D/A G
Is to say I've been hittin' some hard travelin' too