JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "Creeque Alley" adalah lagu yang diciptakan oleh John Phillips dan Michelle Phillips dari grup The Mamas & The Papas.
Lagu ini bercerita tentang bagaimana grup mereka terbentuk dan tahun-tahun awal karier mereka.
Rilis pada 1967, lagu ini dimuat dalam album ketiga mereka yang dinamakan The Mamas & The Papas Deliver.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Do You Wanna Dance - The Mamas & The Papas
Simak lirik dan chord lagu "Creeque Alley" oleh The Mamas & The Papas berikut ini.
B
John and Mitchy were gettin' kind of itchy
B
Just to leave their folk music behind;
E
Zal and Denny workin' for a penny
B
Tryin' to get a fish on the line
F#
In a coffee house Sebastian sat
E
And after every number they'd pass the hat
B
McGuinn and McGuire just a-gettin' higher in L.A.,
E
You know where that's at
D B
And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass
B
Zal he said, "Denny, you know there aren't many
B
Who can sing a song the way that you do; let's go south."
E
Denny said, "Zally, golly, don't you think that I wish
B
I could play guitar like you."
F#
Zal, Denny, and Sebastian sat (at the Night Owl)
E
And after every number they'd pass the hat
B
McGuinn and McGuire still a-gettin' higher in L.A.,
E
You know where that's at
D B
And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass
B
When Cass was a sophomore, planned to go to Swarthmore
B
But she changed her mind one day
E
Standin' on the turnpike, thumb out to hitchhike
B
"Take me to New York right away."
F#
When Denny met Cass he gave her love bumps;
E
Called John and Zal and that was the Mugwumps
B
McGuinn and McGuire couldn't get no higher
E
But that's what they were aimin' at
D B
And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass
B
Mugwumps, high jumps, low slumps, big bumps
B
Don't you work as hard as you play
E
Make up, break up, everything is shake up;
B
Guess it had to be that way
F#
Sebastian and Zal formed the Spoonful;
E
Michelle, John, and Denny gettin' very tuneful
B
McGuinn and McGuire just a-catchin' fire in L.A.,
E
You know where that's at
D B
And everybody's gettin' fat except Mama Cass
B
Broke, busted, disgusted, agents can't be trusted
B
And Mitchy wants to go to the sea
E
Cass can't make it; she says we'll have to fake it
B
We knew she'd come eventually
F#
Greasin' on American Express cards;
E
Tents low rent, but keeping out the heat's hard
B
Duffy's good vibrations and our imaginations
E
Can't go on indefinitely
D B
And California dreamin' is becomin' a reality