Lirik dan Chord Lagu Get Behind The Mule - Tom Waits

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Get Behind The Mule merupakan lagu yang dipopulerkan oleh penyanyi laki-laki asal Amerika Serikat, Tom Waits. Lagu berdurasi 6 menit 52 detik ini merupakan lagu keempat dalam album bertajuk “Mule Variations (Remastered)” yang dirilis pada 27 April 1999. Album ini memuat 16 trek lagu, di antaranya Cold Water, Eyeball Kid, dan House Where Nobody Lives. Penasaran seperti apa lagunya? Untuk mengetahui lirik lagu dan chord “Get Behind The Mule” yang dinyanyikan Tom Waits, simak selengkapnya di bawah ini. Chord gitar di bawah adalah chord yang diturunkan setengah nada dari penyayi aslinya.

 

Lirik Lagu Get Behind The Mule – Tom Waits

[Verse 1]

C#m

Molly b’Damn smote Jimmy the Harp

C#m

With a horrid little pistol and a lariat

C#m

She’s goin to the bottom

C#m

And she’s goin down the drain

C#m

Said she wasn’t big enough to carry it

 

[Chorus]

C#m

She got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

She got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

She got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

She got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

 

[Verse 2]

C#m

Choppity chop goes the axe in the woods

 

You gotta meet me by the fall down tree

C#m

Shovel of dirt upon a coffee lid

 

And I know they’ll come lookin’ for me boys

C#m

And I know they’ll come a-lookin’ for me

 

[Chorus]

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

 

[Verse 3]

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Big Jack Earl was 8’1’

 

He stood in the road and he cried

C#m

He couldn’t make her love him

 

Couldn’t make her stay

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But tell the good Lord that he tried

 

[Chorus]

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

 

[Verse 4]

C#m

Dusty trail from Atchison to Placerville

 

On the wreck of the Weaverville stage

C#m

Beulah fired on Beatty for a lemonade

 

I was stirring my brandy with a nail boys

C#m

Stirring my brandy with a nail

 

[Chorus]

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

 

[Verse 5]

C#m

Well the rampaging sons of the widow James

 

Jack the Cutter and the pock marked kid

 

C#m

Had to stand naked at the bottom of the cross

 

And tell the good lord what they did

 

C#m

Tell the good lord what they did

 

[Chorus]

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

 

[Verse 6]

C#m

Punctuated birds on the power line

 

In a Studebaker with the Birdie Joe Hoaks

C#m

I’m diggin all the way to China with a silver spoon

 

While the hangman fumbles with the noose, boys

C#m

The hangman fumbles with the noose

 

[Chorus]

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

 

[Verse 7]

C#m

Pin your ear to the wisdom post

 

Pin your eye to the line

C#m

Never let the weeds get higher than the garden

 

Always keep a sapphire in your mind

C#m

Always keep a diamond in your mind

 

[Chorus]

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow

C#m

Got to get behind the mule

 

In the morning and plow