Neil Diamond – Brooklyn Roads (Guitar)

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If I close my eyes, I can almost hear my mother,

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callin', Neil, go find your brother, Daddy's home, 

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and it's time for supper, hurry on.

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And I see two boys racin' up two flights of staircase,

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squirmin' into Papa's embrace and his whiskers warm 

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on their face, where's it gone? Oh, where's it gone?

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Two floors above the butcher, first door on the right.

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And life filled to the brim as I stood by my window

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and looked out on those, Brooklyn Roads.

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I can still recall the smells of cookin' in the hallways.

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Rubbers drying in the doorways and report cards I was 

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always afraid to show.

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Mama'd come to school and as I sit there softly crying,

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teacher'd say, he's just not trying, got a good head 

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if he'd apply it.

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But you know yourself, it's always somewhere else.

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I built me a castle with dragons and kings and I'd ride 

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on those Brooklyn roads.

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Thought of going back but all I'd see are stranger's 

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But as my mind walks through those places I'm wonderin',

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what's come of them?

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Does some other young boy come home to my room?

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looks out on those Brook..lyn roads..Brooklyn roads.