Chords for Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez original) performed by Allison Shapira

While we're on the subject of famous songs written for other famous people,
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this is
Joan Baez's most famous original song, which she wrote
[Abm] apparently about Bob Dylan,
although when she asked him about it, and he said, or when he asked her about it and said, hey, play me that song
about Blue Eyes and Robin's eggs, she said, oh, you mean the song I wrote for my husband, David Harris? Ouch.
_ _ But it's definitely about [F] Dylan, and it's what makes it such a powerful song, I believe is the raw
emotion and vulnerability in that song
that you hear in the lyrics that I have always tried to recreate in my own songs,
but is a model that I try to aspire to.
It's very powerful,
it's very haunting, and just as powerful now as when she first wrote it.
This is Diamonds and Rust. _ _
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[Fm] Well, I'll be [F] damned, here [Db] comes your ghost again,
but that's [Ab] not unusual. _
It's just that the [Eb] moon is full,
and you [Fm] happen to call.
_ _ _ And here I sit,
_ and on [Db] the telephone,
_ _ hearing [Ab] a voice I'd known a couple of [Eb] light years ago,
_ heading [F] straight for a fall.
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As I remember your eyes were [Db] bluer than Robin's eggs,
my [Ab] poetry was lousy, you said.
Where [Eb] are you calling from?
A booth in [F] the Midwest.
_ _ _ [Fm] _ Ten years ago, I bought you [Db] some cufflinks.
_ You [Ab] brought me something.
_ We [Eb] both know what memories can bring.
They bring [F] diamonds and rust.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] Well, you [Fm] burst on the scene, [Db] already a legend, _
the [Ab] unwashed phenomenon,
_ _ the [Eb] original vagabond.
_ You [Fm] strayed into my arms, _ and there you stayed,
temporarily [Db]
lost at sea.
The [Ab] Madonna was yours for free.
Guess the [Eb] girl on the half-shell
would keep [Fm] you on high. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] Now I see you standing with brown leaves falling all [Bbm] around, snow in your hair.
_ _ _ [Cm] Now you're smiling out the window of that crummy hotel over [Bbm] Washington Square.
_ [Db] Ah, our breath comes out, bright clouds, mingles and [Ab] hangs in the air,
[Gb] speaking strictly for me.
We both could have died [Ab] then and there.
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[F] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ Now you're telling me
_ [Db] you're not nostalgic.
Then give me [Ab] another word for it.
You [Eb] were so good with words, and at [Fm] keeping things vague. _
_ Because I need some of that vagueness now, it's all come [Db] back too clearly.
[C] Yes, I [Ab] loved you dearly,
and if you're [Eb] offering me diamonds and rust, I [Fm] have already paid.
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