Chords for Neil Diamond - Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show (Live)

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_ _ _ _ _ August night and the leaves hanging down and the grass on the ground smelling sweet. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [E] _ _ Oh, _ up the road to the outside of town, _ sound of that good gospel beat. _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ Sits a ragged tent [D] _ _ _ where there ain't no [A] trees.
_ _ And that gospel group, [D] _ _ tell it you and me.
[A] It's Brother Love, it's Brother Love, it's [D] a salvation show.
[E] Party, party, [A] pockets full of babies, grab your ladies.
[D] Everyone knows, [A] _ everyone knows, Brother [E]
Love's show. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Room gets suddenly still and when you'd almost bet you could hear yourself sweat, he walks in.
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_ _ _ Eyes black as coal and when he lifts his face, every ear and the place is all his. _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ Starting soft and slow, [D] _ _ _ like a small earthquake.
_ [A] _ _ And then he lets go.
[D] _ _ Half a valley shakes [A] its, Brother Love, Brother Love, [D] it's a salvation show.
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Party, _ [A] party, _ _ _ grab your ladies.
[D] _ Everyone knows, _
[A] everyone knows, _ Brother [E] Love's show.
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_ _ This song is written about a revival meeting I was at in Jackson, Mississippi.
_ _ And I went there, I guess, because I was curious. _
And also I was a college kid who thought he had all the answers, you know.
And nobody was going to teach me anything and I was going to lay a few answers on them.
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[E] So I sat in the back of this tent meeting _ and I got really caught up in the music, clapping, the singing, tremendously exciting.
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[E] _ _ And after a while I kind of felt something about the people.
There was a tremendous yearning there, _ looking for answers.
I think that's where I was at, _ _ trying to find some _ _ way to ease a very hard burden, very rough lives. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And after a while the music stopped and a preacher walked out. _ _ _ _
_ _ And I remember thinking at that time that all of the education that I had, all of the books, all of the words,
all of the learning [A#] that I had gone through [B] at college didn't mean anything [E] there.
I couldn't give anything to these people.
I had nothing for them.
_ And so I found myself pulling for this man _ who was about to give them something that I couldn't _ even begin to give them. _ _
_ _ And he looked up very slowly _ _ and he began his sermon. _ _
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Brothers, I say brothers, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ now you got yourself two good hands brother. _ _ _
And when your heart is troubled, _ _ _ when your brother is hungry and ain't got what to eat, _ _
_ _ when he's tired and ain't got where to sleep, _ _ _ when his heart is filled with an ache and a pain
and he ain't got who to cry along with, brothers I want you to take your hand, _ reach it out for him.
And that's what it's there for.
_ _ _ _ _ And when your heart is troubled I want you to take your other hand, take your other hand, reach it out to the man up there.
_ _ _ _ _ And that's what he's there for. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ Take my hand dear God, [D] _ _ walk with me this day.
[A] _ _ In my heart I know [D] _ _ I will never stay.
Party, party, _ party, party, party, party, party, [A] party, party, party, _ _ party, party, party, [D] party, party, party, party, _ _
[E] _ _ _ [A] party, party, _ party, party, party, party, party, party, [D] party, party, party, party, _ _ [A] _
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[E] _ _ _ party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, party, _ party
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