JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan” adalah sebuah lagu yang dibawakan oleh penyanyi legendaris asal Inggris, Marianne Faithfull.
Diciptakan oleh penulis dan penyair asal Amerika Serikat, Shel Silverstein, lagu tersebut merupakan bagian dari album ketujuh Marianne yang bertajuk Broken English.
Album tersebut dirilis pada 2 November 1979 melalui Island Records.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Better be Good to Me - Tina Turner
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan” dari Marianne Faithfull.
E E7
The morning sun touched gently on
A E
the eyes of Lucy Jordan
in a white suburban bedroom
B B7
in a white suburban town.
E E7
As she lay there 'neath the covers
A E
dreaming of a thousand lovers
B B7
till the world turned to orange
E E7
and the room went spinning round.
A
At the age of thirty-seven
E
she realized she'd never ride
through Paris in a sports car
B
with the warm wind in her hair.
E E7
So she let the phone keep ringing
A E
as she sat there softly singing
B
the nursery rhymes she'd memorize
A E
in her daddy's easy chair.
E7
Her husband is off to work
A E
and the kids are off to school
and there were oh so many ways
B B7
for her to spend a day.
E E7
She could clean the house for hours
A E
or re-arrange the flowers
B
or run naked through the shady street
E
screaming all the way.
A
At the age of thirty-seven
E
she realized she'd never ride
through Paris in a sports car
B
with the warm wind in her hair.
E E7
So she let the phone keep ringing
A E
as she sat there softly singing
B
the nursery rhymes she'd memorize
A E
in her daddy's easy chair.
E7
The evening sun touched gently on
A E
the eyes of Lucy Jordan
on the rooftop where she climbed
B B7
when all the laughter grew too loud.
E E7
And she bowed and curtsied to the man
A E
who reached and offered her his hand
B
and led her down to the long white car
E E7
that waited, past the crowd.
A
At the age of thirty-seven
E
she knew that she'd found heaven
as she rode along through Paris
B
with the warm wind in her hair.