JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Inggris, David Bowie, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “The Laughing Gnome”.
Lagu bergenre rock tersebut dirilis pada 1995 melalui label EMI Records.
“The Laughing Gnome” muncul dalam album studio ke-20 yang bertajuk London Boy.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu There is a Happy Land - David Bowie
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “The Laughing Gnome” dari David Bowie:
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I was walking- down the high street- when I heard footsteps behind me,
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and there was a little old man in scarlet and grey, chuckling away.
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Well he trotted- back to my house- and he sat beside the telly,
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with his tiny hands on his tummy, chuckling away, chugging all day.
[spoken] "I ought to report you to the gnome office." "Gnome office, ha,ha,ha!"
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Ha,ha, ha!- Hee,hee, hee!- I'm a laughing gnome and you can't catch me.-
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Ha,ha, ha!- Hee,hee, hee!- I'm a laughing gnome and you can't catch me.-
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Said the laughing gnome.
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Well I gave him- roasted toad-stools- And a glass of dandelion wine.
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Then I put him on a train to Eastbourne and carried his bag and gave him a fag.
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"Ave you got a light boy?" "'Ere! Where do you come from?"
"Gnome-man's land." "Oh,really."
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In the morning- when I woke up- he was sitting on the edge of my bed-
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with his brother whose name was Fred. He'd brought him along- to sing me a song.-
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"Alright let's here it?" "'Ere! what's that clicking sound?"
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"That's Fred. He's a metrognome." "Own up. I'm a gnome, ain' I?"
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"Ain't you got a gnome to go to?"
"No! We're gnomads." "Didn't they teach you to get your 'aircut at school? You
look like a rolling gnome."
"Not at the London school of Ecognomics."
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Now they staying- up the chimney- and we're living on caviar and honey-
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'cause they're earning me lots of money,writing comedy prose for radio shows.
"It's the er- it's the gnome service, of course."
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