Lirik dan Chord Lagu The Grave - Don McLean

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “The Grave” adalah salah satu lagu yang dimiliki oleh penyanyi-penulis lagu asal Amerika Serikat, Don McLean.

Lagu berdurasi 3 menit 8 detik ini diproduseri oleh Ed Freeman dan muncul dalam album studio kedua McLean yang bertajuk American Pie.

Album yang dirilis pada tahun 1971 itu berhasil mendapatkan nominasi Grammy untuk Album of the Year.

Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu The Flight of Dragons - Don McLean

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “The Grave” dari Don McLean.

[Intro]
Dm C E7

[Verse 1]
                Am                                G
When the wars of our nation did beckon
    C                                   Dm            E7
A man barely twenty did answer the calling
Am                G                   Dm                E7                A5
Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation. He's gone
         Dm                                    Dm                      E7
But eternity knows him and it knows what we've done

[Verse 2]
               Am                                    Dm                 E7
And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers
               Am                                        Dm                   E7
Leaving brown muddy clay where the earth had been dry
        Am               Am6        Dm            E7
And deep in the trench he waited for hours
          C                               Dm                E7
As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die

[Verse 3]
             Dm                             Am
But the silence of night was shattered by fire
      Dm                                       Am
As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air
Dm                              Am
One after another his comrades were slaughtered
        C                               Dm                  E7
In a morgue of marines, alone standing there

[Verse 4]
       F                                        F           Am
He crouched ever lower, ever lower in fear
          F                                 F                       Am
They can't let me die, they can't let me die here
      F                                 F                   Am
I'll cover myself with the mud and the earth
      F                       F                    E7
I'll cover myself, I know I'm not brave!
        C               Dm           E7
The earth, the earth, the earth is my grave

[Solo]
Am7 G

C

E7

Dm C E7

[Outro]
        Am                                          G
The grave that they dug him had flowers
C                                              Dm                      E7
Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colours
               Am                              G                Dm               E7
And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone
         Am
He's gone