Brooklyn roads
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A
A7 - A
A7
1. If I close my eyes, I can almost hear my mother,
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callin', "Neil, go find your brother,
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Daddy's home, and it's time
for supper, hurry on!"
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A A7
2. And I see two boys racin' up two flights of staircase,
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squirmin' into Papa's embrace,
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and
his whiskers warm on their face, where's it gone ?
A
Oh, where's it gone ?
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Two floors above the butcher first door on the right,
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life
filled to the brim as I stood by my window,
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and looked
out on those Brooklyn roads.
A
A7 - A A7
3. I can still recall the smells of cookin'
in the hallways,
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rubbers
drying in the doorways,
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and
report cards I was always afraid to show.
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A A7
4. Mama'd
come to school, and as I'd sit
there softly crying,
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teacher'd say, "He's just not trying.
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Got a good head if he'd apply
it, but you know yourself,
A
It's always somewhere else.”
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I built me a castle with
dragons and kings,
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and
I'd ride off with them as I stood by my window,
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and
looked out on those Brooklyn roads.
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- A A7
3. Thought of going back, but all I'd see are stranger's faces,
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and
all the scars that love erases.
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But as my mind walks through
those places, I'm wonderin'
A
what's
come of them.
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Does some other young boy come home to my room
?
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Does he dream what I did as he
stands by my window,
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and
looks out on those Brooklyn roads, Brooklyn roads ?
(midi in G) (Neil Diamond)