JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "The Laughing Apple" adalah lagu Yusuf/Cat Stevens yang pertama kali dirilis pada 1967 lewat album New Masters.
Lagu ini kemudian dirilis ulang oleh Cat Stevens pada 2017, sekaligus menjadi judul album.
Album The Laughing Apple kemudian masuk nominasi Grammy Award untuk kategori Best Folk Album.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Grandsons - Yusuf/Cat Stevens
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "The Laughing Apple" dari Yusuf/Cat Stevens:
[Intro]
C Bb D G C F G C D
Slowly let me tell you a story of a tree, an apple tree
[Interlude]
Em D Em Em7 D Em7 Em D Em Em7 D Em7
[Verse 1]
Em D Em D Em D Em D
Once in a summertime garden lived a little apple tree
G D C D
And the man who owned it wanted it to be picked
G D Em D
And so he sent forth to hire me
Em D
[Pre-chorus]
Em D Em D
Well, I've traveled the mountains
Em D Em D
And I've traveled the sea
G D C
But a never in my traveling days
D G D Em D
Have I ever seen a little apple smile at me
Em D Em
[Chorus]
G D
Laugh, oh laugh a little apple
G C
Autumn is waiting, you'd better be careful
G D Em D
For it will bring you down if it ever sees you wearing a frown
G D
So laugh, oh laugh a little apple
Em D Em
[Verse 2]
Em D Em D
Well, all the apples were hiding
Em D Em D
Frightened that they might be plucked
G C G D
And every time that somebody passed
G D Em D
All except that one little apple ducked
[Pre-chorus]
Em D Em D
Well, I've traveled the mountains
Em D Em D
And I've traveled the sea
G D C
But a never in my traveling days
D G D Em D
Have I ever seen a little apple smile at me
Em D Em
[Chorus]
G D
Laugh, oh laugh a little apple
G C
Autumn is waiting, you'd better be careful
G D Em D
For it will bring you down if it ever sees you wearing a frown
G D
So laugh, oh laugh a little apple
[Chorus]
G D
Laugh, oh laugh a little apple
G C
Autumn is waiting, you'd better be careful
G D Em D
For it will bring you down if it ever sees you wearing a frown
G D
So laugh, oh laugh a little apple
[Outro]
Em D Em