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| Em | C |
Well | I’ll be damned here comes your | ghost again |
| G | D |
But that’s not un | usual it’s just that the | moon is full |
| Em |
And you happened to | call |
| Em | C |
And | here I sit hand on the | telephone |
| G | D |
I’m hearing a | voice I’d known a couple of | light years ago |
| Em |
Heading straight for a | fall |
| C | D |
Well we | both know what memories can | bring |
| Em |
They bring diamonds and | rust |
| C | D |
Well we | both know what memories can | bring |
| Em |
They bring diamonds and | rust |
| Em | C |
As | I remember, your eyes were bluer than | robins’ eggs |
| G | D |
My poetry was | lousy you said, but where are you | calling from? |
| Em |
A booth in the | mid-west |
Em | C |
Ten years ago I bought you some | cuff-links |
| G |
And you bought me | something |
| D |
We both know what | memories can bring |
| Em |
They bring diamonds and | rust |
| Em | C |
You | burst on the scene, already a | legend |
| G | D |
The unwashed phe | nomenon, the original | vagabond |
| Em |
You | strayed into my arms |
| Em | C |
And | there you stayed, temporarily | lost at sea |
| G | D |
The Madonna was | yours for free, the girl on the | half-shell |
| Em |
Could keep you un | harmed |
| C | D |
Well we | both know what memories can | bring |
| Em |
They bring diamonds and | rust |
| C | D |
Well we | both know what memories can | bring |
| Em |
They bring diamonds and | rust |
| Bm7 |
Now I | see you standing with brown leaves falling all around |
| Am7 |
And | snow in your hair |
| Bm7 |
Now you’re | smiling out of the window of that crummy hotel |
| Am7 |
Over | Washington Square |
| C |
Our | breath comes out of white clouds |
| G |
Mingles and | hangs in the air |
| Fmaj7 |
Speaking | strictly for me |
| B7 |
We both could have died then and | there |
| Em | C |
Now you’re | telling me you’re not nos | talgic |
| G | D |
Then give me another | word for it you who are so | good with words |
| Em |
And at keeping things | vague |
| Em |
‘Cause | I need some of that vagueness now |
| C |
It’s all come back too | clearly |
| G | D |
Yes I loved you | dearly, and if you’re offering | diamonds and rust |
| C | D |
Well we | both know what memories can | bring |
| Em |
They bring diamonds and | rust |
| C | D |
Well we | both know what memories can | bring |
| Em |
They bring diamonds and | rust |
| C | D |
Well we | both know what memories can | bring |
| Em |
They bring diamonds and | rust |
| C | D |
Well we | both know what memories can | bring |
| Em |
They bring diamonds and | rust |
C | D | Em |
Diamonds, | diamonds, and | rust |
C | D | Em |
Diamonds, | diamonds, and | rust |