Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust

This is adapted loosely from the Judas Priest version.

The originals are in Em, I play in Em capo 5.

As a duet, I sing a 3rd below the lead and play in Em.

The songs is a dirge, so I follow the Priest version,

which is a rocking metal gallop.

Long riff

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Short riff

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Play long riff if not rocking

Well EmI’ll be damned here comes your Cghost again

But that’s not unGusual it’s just that the Dmoon is full

And you happened to Emcall

And Emhere I sit hand on the Ctelephone

I’m hearing a Gvoice I’d known a couple of Dlight years ago

Heading straight for a Emfall

Play short riff if not rocking

As EmI remember, your eyes were bluer than Crobins’ eggs

My poetry was Glousy you said, but where are you Dcalling from?

A booth in the Emmid-west

EmTen years ago I bought you some Ccuff-links

And you bought me Gsomething

We both know what Dmemories can bring

They bring diamonds and Emrust

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You Emburst on the scene, already a Clegend

The unwashed pheGnomenon, the original Dvagabond

You Emstrayed into my arms

And Emthere you stayed, temporarily Clost at sea

The Madonna was Gyours for free, the girl on the Dhalf-shell

Could keep you unEmharmed

Vox on the 5 of the chord

Now I Bm7see you standing with brown leaves falling all around

And Am7snow in your hair

Now you’re Bm7smiling out of the window of that crummy hotel

Over Am7Washington Square

Our Cbreath comes out of white clouds

Mingles and Ghangs in the air

Speaking Fmaj7strictly for me

We both could have died then and B7there

EmDEm

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Now you’re Emtelling me you’re not nosCtalgic

Then give me another Gword for it you who are so Dgood with words

And at keeping things Emvague

‘Cause EmI need some of that vagueness now

It’s all come back too Cclearly

Yes I loved you Gdearly, and if you’re offering Ddiamonds and rust

I’ve already Empaid