JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Joni Mitchell merupakan penyanyi asal Kanada yang memopulerkan lagu berjudul “Just Like This Train”.
Lagu yang diproduseri oleh dirinya sendiri ini muncul dalam album studio keenam yang bertajuk Court and Spark.
Album tersebut dirilis pada 17 Januari 1974 dan sukses mencapai peringkat ke-2 di tangga lagu US Billboard 200.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Just Like This Train” dari Joni Mitchell.
Intro:
C
A – Bb – B – C – C# - D – C
A – Bb – B – C
C D/C
I’m al-ways running behind the time
G7sus4 C
Just like this train
F7
Shaking into town
Am C G
With the brakes com-plai-ning
D/C C
I used to count lovers like railroad cars
I counted them on my side
F7 Am7
Late-ly I don’t count on noth-ing
C
I just let things slide
G F/G
The station mas-ter’s shuffling cards
G
Box cars are bang-ing in the yards
Jealous lovin’ll make you crazy
If you can’t find your goodness
F7 D9 Gm9 C
‘Cause you lost your heart
A – Bb – B – C – C# - D – C
A – Bb – B - C
C
I went look-ing for a cause
Or a strong cat without claws
D/C G7sus4
Or any reason to re- -sume
C F7
And I found this empty seat
Am C
In this crowded waiting room
G
Ev-erybody waiting
D/C C
Old man sleeping on his bags
Women with that teased-up kind of hair
F7 Am
Kids with the jitters in their legs
C
And those wide, wide open stares
G F/G
And the kids got Cokes and chocolate bars
G
There’s a thin man smo-king a fat cigar
Jealous lovin’ll make you crazy
If you can’t find your goodness
F7 D9
‘Cause you lost your heart
Gm7
What are you gonna do now?
C
You’ve got no one to give your love to
A – Bb – B – C – C# - D – C
A – Bb – B – C
C
Well, I’ve got this berth
And this roll-down blind
D/C G7sus4
I’ve got this fold-up sink
C F7 Am
And these rocks and cactuses go-ing by
C G
And a bottle of German wine to drink
D/C C
Settle down into the clickety-clack
With the clouds and the stars to read
F7 Am
Dream-ing of the pleasure I’m gon-na have
C
Watching your hair-line recede
My vain darling
G G13
Watching your hair and clouds and stars
G G13
I’m rocking away in a sleeping car
G G13
This jealous lov-ing’s bound to make me cra-zy
F7 D9
I can’t find my good-ness, I lost my heart
Gm7 C
Oh, sour grapes, because I lost my heart
A – Bb – B – C – C# - D – C
A – Bb – B – C – C# - D – C
A – Bb – B – C – C#