Brooklyn Roads:Neil Diamond.
#58 on BB Hot 100 on UNI Records
in 1968.
INTRO: A
#1.
A
If I close my eyes, I can almost hear my mother,
D
callin', Neil, go find your brother, Daddy's home,
G D
and it's time for supper, hurry on.
A
And I see two boys racin' up two flights of staircase,
D
squirmin' into Papa's embrace and his whiskers warm
G D A
on their face, where's it gone? Oh, where's it gone?
CHORUS:
D G C F
Two floors above the butcher, first door on the right.
F
And life filled to the brim as I stood by my window
C D
and looked out on those, Brooklyn Roads.
#2.
A
I can still recall the smells of cookin' in the hallways.
D G
Rubbers drying in the doorways and report cards I was
D
always afraid to show.
A
Mama'd come to school and as I sit there softly crying,
D
teacher'd say, he's just not trying, got a good head
G
if he'd apply it.
D A
But you know yourself, it's always somewhere else.
CHORUS:
D Gm C F
I built me a castle with dragons and kings and I'd ride
off with them as I stood by my window and looked out
C D
on those Brooklyn roads.
INTERLUDE: G D G C F Bb C D
#3.
A
Thought of going back but all I'd see are stranger's
faces and all the scars that love erases.
D G D
But as my mind walks through those places I'm wonderin',
A
what's come of them?
OUTRO:
D Gm C F
Does some other young boy come home to my room?
Does he dream what I did as he stands by my window and
C Bm Em D G D G D
looks out on those Brook..lyn roads..Brooklyn roads.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
