JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" merupakan lagu Ella Fitzgerald yang diluncurkan pada 1956.
Lagu ini kemudian dimuat dalam album berjudul Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book.
Ella Fitzgerald adalah penyanyi jazz perempuan terbaik hingga dijuluki sebagai Queen of Jazz.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Dream A Little Dream of Me - Ella Fitzgerald ft. Louis Armstrong
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" dari Ella Fitzgerald.
[Intro]
G Em Am D7
[Verse 1]
G Em G Em G Em Am D7
Every time we say goodbye, I die a little.
G D7 Bb D7 G G Cm Cm
Every time we say goodbye, I wonder why a little.
G Cmaj7 Am D7 Dm G Cmaj7
Why the gods above me, who must be in the know
Cm Cm G G A7 D7
Think so little of me, they allow you to go.
[Verse 2]
G Em G Em G Em Am D7
When you´re near, there´s such an air of spring about it.
G D7 Bb D7 G G C Cm
I can hear a lark somewhere waiting to sing about it.
G Cmaj7 Am D7 Dm G Cmaj7 Cm
There´s no love song finer, but how strange the change from major to minor,
G Em Am D7 G
every time we say goodbye.