JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Kanada, Joni Mitchell, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “Songs To Aging Children Come”.
Lagu bergenre folk tersebut dirilis pada 1969 melalui label rekaman Warner Records.
“Songs To Aging Children Come” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk Clouds.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Songs To Aging Children Come” dari Joni Mitchell:
[Verse 1]
G F#
Through the windless wells of wonder
F B
By the throbbing light machine
A G
In the tea leaf trance or under
F# B
Orders from the king and queen
D F F7/B
Songs, to aging children come
F7/B
(Songs, to aging children come)
B Eb Eb7/A
Aging children, I am one (I am one)
[Verse 2]
G F#
People hurry by so quickly
F B
Don't they hear the melodies
A G
In the chiming and the clicking
F# B
And the laughing harmonies
D F F7/B
Songs, to aging children come
F7/B
(Songs, to aging children come)
B Eb Eb7/A
Aging children, I am one (I am one)
[Verse 3]
G F#
Some come dark and strange like dying
F B
Crows and ravens whistling
A G
Lines of weeping, strings of crying
F# B
So much said in listening
D F F7/B
Songs, to aging children come
F7/B
(Songs, to aging children come)
B Eb Eb7/A
Aging children, I am one (I am one)
[Verse 4]
G F#
Does the moon play only silver
F B
When it strums the galaxy
A G
Dying roses will they will their
F# B
Perfumed rhapsodies to me
D F F7/B
Songs, to aging children come
F7/B
(Songs, to aging children come)
B Eb
This is one