JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "All Along the Watchtower" merupakan lagu lawas yang dinyanyikan ulang oleh Jimi Hendrix.
Lagu ini pertama kali rilis pada 1968 sebagai singel milik Bob Dylan dalam John Wesley Harding.
Jimi Hendrix merekam kembali lagu ini tak lama setelah Bob Dylan merilis lagunya.
Versi Jimi Hendrix berhasil masuk di majalah Rolling Stone untuk kategori 500 Greatest Songs of All Time pada 2004.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Little Wing oleh Jimi Hendrix
Simak lirik dan chord lagu "All Along the Watchtower" dari Jimi Hendrix.
[Verse]
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"There must be some kind of way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
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"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
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Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
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None will level on the line nobody offered his word."
[Verse 2]
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"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
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"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
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But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
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So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."
[Verse 3]
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All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
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While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
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Outside in the cold distance a wildcat did growl,
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Two riders were approaching, and the wind began to howl. Yeah, Yeah.