JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “Slap Leather” merupakan salah satu lagu yang dipopulerkan oleh penyanyi-penulis lagu asal Amerika Serikat, James Taylor.
Lagu tersebut dimuat sebagai trek ke-6 dalam album studio ke-30 miliknya yang bertajuk New Moon Shine.
Album yang berisikan 12 trek tersebut dirilis secara resmi pada 1991 melalui label Columbia Records.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Only for Me - James Taylor
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Slap Leather” dari James Taylor:
[Verse 1]
A7
Take all the money that we need for school
A7
And to keep the street people in out of the cold
A7
Spend it on a weapon you can never use
A7
Make the world an offer that they can't refuse
[Verse 2]
A7
Open up the door and let the shark-men feed
A7
Hoover of the future in the land of greed
A7
Sell the Ponderosa to the Japanese
[Chorus]
A7
Slap leather
D7
Head for that line of trees, yeah
A7
Slap leather
E7+9 A7
Go on Ron, just about to go myself
[Verse 3]
A7+9 A7
Turn the whole wide world into a TV show
A7
So it's just the same game wherever you go
A7
You never meet a soul that you don't already know
A7
One big advertisement for the status quo
[Verse 4]
A7
As if these celebrities were your close friends
A7
As if you knew how the story ends
A7
As if you weren't sitting in a room alone
A7 D7
And there was somebody real at the other end of the phone, yeah
[Chorus]
A7
Squibnocket
E7+9
Phone sex
A7
Just about to dial your number
[Instrumental]
A7
[Verse 5]
A7
Get all worked up so we can go to war
A7
We find something worth killing for
A7
Tie a yellow ribbon around your eyes
D7
Big McFalafel and a side of fries, yeah
[Chorus]
A7
Big McFalafel
E7+9
Storming Norman
A7
I just love a parade
[Chorus]
D7
Slap leather
A7
Phone love
E7+9
Big McFalafel
A7
Just about to dial myself
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