suzanne : neil diamond .
album – stones – #17 in uk and #11 on A#
hot 200 on mca records in 1971 .
intro : A Bm E A
#1 .
A
suzanne takes you down to her place by the river . .
D
you can hear the boats go by . . you can spend the
night forever .
A
and you know the girl’s half crazy and that’s why
you want to be there .
C#m D
and she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the
A
way from china .
#2 .
A
and just when you want to tell her that you have no
D
love to give her . . she gets you on her wavelength
A
and lets the river answer . . that you’ve always been
her lover .
#3 .
A
and jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water
D
and he spent a long time watching from the lonely wooden
tower .
A
and when he knew for certain only drowning men could
C#m D
see him he said , “all men are sailors then until the sea
shall free them . ”
A
but he himself was broken , long before the sky would open .
D
forsaken , almost human , he sank beneath your wisdom like
A
a stone .
bridge :
C#m D
and you want to travel with him and you want to travel blind .
A E
and you think that you may trust him for he’s touched your
D E A
perfect body with his mind .
#3 .
A D
suzanne takes you down to her place by the river . . you can hear
the boats that go by , you can spend the night forever .
A
and the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor .
C#m D
and she shows you where to look amid the garbage and the flowers .
A
there are heroes in the seaweed . . there are children in the morning
D
they are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever ,
A
while suzanne holds her mirror .
a seventies smash from kraziekhat .
suzanne : neil diamond .
album – stones – #17 in uk and #11 on A#
hot 200 on mca records in 1971 .
intro : A Bm E A
#1 .
A
suzanne takes you down to her place by the river . .
D
you can hear the boats go by . . you can spend the
night forever .
A
and you know the girl’s half crazy and that’s why
you want to be there .
C#m D
and she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the
A
way from china .
#2 .
A
and just when you want to tell her that you have no
D
love to give her . . she gets you on her wavelength
A
and lets the river answer . . that you’ve always been
her lover .
#3 .
A
and jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water
D
and he spent a long time watching from the lonely wooden
tower .
A
and when he knew for certain only drowning men could
C#m D
see him he said , “all men are sailors then until the sea
shall free them . ”
A
but he himself was broken , long before the sky would open .
D
forsaken , almost human , he sank beneath your wisdom like
A
a stone .
bridge :
C#m D
and you want to travel with him and you want to travel blind .
A E
and you think that you may trust him for he’s touched your
D E A
perfect body with his mind .
#3 .
A D
suzanne takes you down to her place by the river . . you can hear
the boats that go by , you can spend the night forever .
A
and the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor .
C#m D
and she shows you where to look amid the garbage and the flowers .
A
there are heroes in the seaweed . . there are children in the morning
D
they are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever ,
A
while suzanne holds her mirror .
a seventies smash from kraziekhat .
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