Chords for Steve Hofmeyr - Neil Diamond Storie (Deel 1 / Live at Sun Arena / 2019)

_ I need, _ I want, I care, I ache, I weep, _ I am, I said
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Hillies find sunshines most the time, _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ then the feeling is laid back
_ _ _ [E] Palm trees grow, rents are low, what you know, keep thinking about
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Making my way back, _ _ _ _ I love New York City, born and raised
Now days I'm lost between two [D] shores _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] Hillies fine, but it ain't home
New York's home, but it ain't mine [A] no more
_ _ _ _ I am, I said
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_ To no [D] one there _ _
_ _ _ _ No one heard at all, nah
Even [A] the chill
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_ _ You know it's [A] leaving me lonely still _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ In the seventies Neil [C#] Diamond was in the Guinness Book of Records
Not for what you think, he was there for the most expensive divorce in human history _
He still pays today
_ _ [G] So, he pulls us out of New York to get away from the old family and he stays there in Los Angeles
But once, twice, three times a year he has to [F#] go back to New York for a concert
And when he [G] enters the Sherry Netherlands Hotel where he always stayed _
His wife [N] is standing with the kids in front of him and waiting at the reception
_ _ She says to him, you think you're a pop star, you take these kids for a week
_ _ I'll tell you the simple story, because I want you to know it sounds exactly like my life _
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Do you start to see the connection between me and Neil? _
There's more, you'll see, you'll see _ _ _
So, he's in the hotel room all night, there he is with the two kids, they're so big
I'll tell you that too, because I want you to know it's my childhood, how long ago it was
And outside on the street in Central Park there's [D] a noise
_ His daughter Marjorie gets up, she walks to the window
_ She opens it, she hears the noise, she turns to her dad
She says something to him and he knows, he's going to write a song about it
She says, daddy, _ _ oh the [Dm] beautiful noise
_ Coming up from the street
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_ It's got a beautiful sound _
_ It's got a [D] beautiful beat _ _
It's a beautiful noise
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Coming up from the street _ _ _
Like the clickety-clack of a train on a track
It's got a [D] rhythm to spare
_ _ It's [G] a beautiful noise
_ It's a sound that I [C] love
_ _ _ And it fits me [F]
well
_ _ Like a [G] hand in a glove
Yes it does, yes it does _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] Song, song, blue
_ Everybody [G] knows one _ _ _ _ _ _
Song, song, blue
_ Every [C] garden grows one _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Funny thing
That you can sing it [F] with a cry in your voice _ _
[A] _ _ [G] You take the blues and make a song
_ [C] You simply got no choice _
Oh, you [Dm] simply got no choice
_ [G]
Hey, [E] stop, stop, stop, stop, stop
Can I say something?
[N] It's just me
Turn on the lights, please
Is there anyone here between and 35 years old? Put your hands up Holy moly _ _ _ What the hell _ _ Thank you for being here I know you're a man or you know who the hell Neil Diamond is _ _ _ Do you have a clue? _ _ To kill yourself at a karaoke at Sweet Caroline, tell me _ I know you've done it Welcome, you're under pressure tonight Someone pulled you by the ear _ _ _ Welcome to Baja Baja old music All between 35 and 55 Don't be shy, put your hands up _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ You have a special connection to Neil Diamond Because it's in your DNA _ _ _ _ You were made for this music _ _ _ _ _ It wasn't TV It was maybe a drive-in, but it wasn't TV You were made for the backseat of a 1961 Chevy Impala _ _ _ _ It's common, but it's tasty I was made for that _ _ _ At the Lynwood Drive-in _ All between 55 and older Don't be shy, put your hands up Ho! _ Yes! _ _ _ I can't tell you anything about Neil Diamond _ You know him well You were there You don't wear that earring anymore You're a bit shy He's even a bit more shy with the car Do you know why? _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [C] Because he was shy You [F] and me, we [G] go in style [Dm] Raglan Rose, your starboard wall You make me sing like a guitar _ [F] Hang out with me, girl, our song keeps running _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
Play it now Play it now, my baby [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [E] _ _