JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “The Frozen Man” adalah salah satu lagu yang dibawakan oleh penyanyi-penulis lagu asal Amerika Serikat, James Taylor.
Lagu tersebut dimuat sebagai trek ke-5 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 One Morning in May - James Taylor
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “The Frozen Man” dari James Taylor:
[Intro]
D G D Em Asus A
Last thing I remember is the freezing cold
D G Em D A
Water reaching up just to swallow me whole
D G D Em Asus A
Ice in the rigging and the howling wind
D G Em D A
Shock to my body as we tumbled in
Bm A
My brothers and the others are lost at sea
G D
I alone have returned to tell thee
G D
Hidden in ice for a century
E A
To walk the world again
G Asus A D
Lord have mercy on the frozen man
[Verse]
D G D Em Asus A
Next words that were spoken to me
D G Em D A
Nurse asked me what my name might be
D G D Em A
She was all in white at the foot of my bed
D G Em D Asus A
I said angel of mercy I'm alive or am I dead
Bm A
My name is William James McPhee
G D
I was born in eighteen forty-three
G D
Raised in Liverpool by the sea
E A
But that ain't who I am
G Asus A D
Lord have mercy on the frozen man
[Bridge]
G Em C A
It took a lot of money to start my heart
G Em A D
To peg my leg and buy my eye
G Em C A
The newspapers call me state of the art
G Em A
And the children, when they see me, cry
[Verse]
D G D Em Asus A
I thought it would be nice just to visit my grave
D G Em Asus A
See what kind of tombstone I might have
D G D Em Asus A
I saw my wife and my daughter and it seemed so strange
D G Em D Asus A
Both of them dead and gone from extreme old age
[Outro]
D G D Em Asus A
See here, when I die make sure I'm gone
D G Em D A
Don't leave em’ nothing to work on
D G D Em Asus A
You can raise your arm, you can wiggle your hand
D G Em D
And you can wave good-bye to the frozen man
Bm A
I know what it means to freeze to death
G D
To lose a little life with every breath
G D
To say good-bye to life on earth
E A
To come around again
G Asus A D
Lord have mercy on the frozen man
G Asus A D
Lord have mercy on the frozen man
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