JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “Ace in the Hole” merupakan salah satu lagu yang dipopulerkan oleh penyanyi-penulis lagu asal Amerika Serikat, Paul Simon.
Lagu tersebut dimuat sebagai trek keenam dalam album studio solo kelima miliknya yang bertajuk One-Trick Pony.
Album yang dirilis pada tahun 1980 melalui Warner Records tersebut menduduki posisi ke-17 di UK Albums Chart.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Gone at Last - Paul Simon
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Ace in the Hole” dari Paul Simon.
A7 |Bm A | |Bm A7|
Some people say Jesus that's the ace in the hole
|Bm A7 | |Bm A7|
But I never met the man so I don't really know
|Bm A7 | |Bm
Maybe some Christmas if I'm sick and alone
A7 | |Bm A7|
He will look up my number
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Call me on the phone and say,
G/D | |Bm | |F#m | | | |
Hey----,boy, where you been so long?
G#m7-5 | |
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F | |A7 |Bm A7| |Bm A7| |Bm A7| |Bm A7|
I'm your ace in the hole
A7 |Bm A | |Bm
Two hundred dollars, that's my ace in the hole
A7 | |Bm A7 | |Bm
When I'm down, dirty and desperate that's my emergency bank roll
A7 | |Bm A7 | |Bm
I got two hundred dollars, that's the price on the street
A7 | |Bm A7|
If you wanna get some quality
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That's the price you got to meet. And the man says,
G/D | |Bm | |F#m | | | |
Hey,--- Junior, where you been so long?
G#m7-5 | |
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F | |A7 |Bm A7| |Bm A7| |Bm A7| |Bm A7|
I'm your ace in the hole
A7 |Bm A | |Bm
Once I was crazy and my ace in the hole
A7 | |Bm A7 | |Bm
Was that I knew that I was crazy So I never lost my self-control
A7 | |Bm A7 | |Bm
I just walk in the middle of the road I sleep in the middle of the bed
A7 | |Bm A7
I stop in the middle of a sentence
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And the voice in the middle of my head said
G/D | |Bm | |F#m | | | |
Hey,--- Junior, where you been so long?
G#m7-5 | |
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F | |A/E | |D#m7-5 | |
I'm your ace in the hole, oh yeah
Dmaj7 |
Ace in the hole
C#m5-5 |A#dim |
Lean on me
Bm7 | |
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F | |A | |Bm7/A | |A7 | | | |
I'm your guarantee
G/D |G |
Riding on this rolling bus
F#m | |
Beneath a stony sky
Bm |
With a slow moon rising
E7 |A |A7 |
And the smokestacks drifting by
G/D |G
In the hour when the heart is weakest
|F#m | |
And memory is strong
Bm |
When time has stopped
E7 |A7 |
and the bus just rolls along
|D | |A |
Roll on, roll on
|D | |A |
Roll on, roll on
|D | |
Roll on, roll on
A A/G#|F#m |Bm |E |A7 |Bm A7| |Bm A7| |Bm A7| |Bm A7|
A7 |Bm A | |Bm
Some people say music that's their ace in the hole
A7 | |Bm A7 | |Bm
Just your ordinary rhythm and blues Your basic rock and roll
A7 | |Bm A7 | |Bm
You can sit on the top of the beat; you can lean on the side of the beat
A7 | |Bm A7
You can hang from the bottom of the beat
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But you got to admit that the music is sweet
G/D | |Bm | |F#m | | | |
Where you been so long?
G#m7-5 | |
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F | |A/E | |D#m7-5 | |
I'm your ace in the hole, oh yeah
Dmaj7 |
Ace in the hole
C#m7-5 | A#dim |
Lean on me
Bm7 | |
Don't you know me?
Dm6/F | |A7 |Bm A| |Bm A7| | | |
I'm your guarantee