Neil Diamond, Brooklyn Roads (1968)
Key: :[F#] (w: Neil Diamond)
INTRO: [F#7]
VERSE 1:
[F#7] If I close my eyes, I can almost hear my mother
Callin', "Neil, go find your brother,
[B] Daddy's home
and it's
[E] time for supper,
[B] hurry on"
VERSE 2:
[F#7] And I see two boys, racin' up two flights of staircase
Squirmin' into Papa's embrace,
[B] and his whiskers
[E] warm on their face
[B] where's it gone, oh,
[F#7] where's it gone
CHORUS 1:
[B7] Two floors above the
[Em] butcher,
[A7] first door on the
[D] right
[Dmaj7] Life filled to the
[D7] brim, as I stood by my
[D6] window
And looked out on
[A] those, Brooklyn
[B] Roads
VERSE 3:
[F#7] I can still recall, the smell of cookin' in the hallways
Rubbers drying in the doorways,
[B] and report cards
[E] I was always a-
[B]-fraid to show
VERSE 4:
[F#7] Mama'd come to school, and as I'd sit there softly crying
Teacher'd say, "He's just not trying,
[B] he's got a good
[E] head if he'd apply it"
But you
[B] know yourself, it's always
[F#7] somewhere else
CHORUS 2:
[B7] I built me a
[Em] castle,
[A7] with dragons and
[D] kings
[Dmaj7] And I'd ride off with
[D7] them, as I stood by my
[D6] window
And looked out on
[A] those, Brooklyn
[B] Roads
INSTRUMENTAL: [B7] [Em] [A7] [D] //
[A] [B]
VERSE 5:
[F#7] Thought of going back, but all I'd see are strangers faces
And all the scars that love erases,
[B] but as my mind
[E] walks thru those places
I'm
[B] wonderin', what's
[F#7] come of them
CHORUS 3:
[B7] Does some other
[Em] young boy,
[A7] come home to my
[D] room
[Dmaj7] Does he dream what I
[D7] did, as he stands by my
[D6] window
And looks out on
[A] those, Brooklyn
[B] Road, Brooklyn
[B] Roads
[B open] 