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Diamonds and rust  Joan Baez

 


Date: 09 Sep 95 14:45:25 EDT

DIAMONDS AND RUST - Joan Baez - from record of same name.

Chords are as played; I cannot remember what fret the capo should go on (I play it open in C tuning)


[Em]Well [Em]I'll be damned
Here comes your [C]ghost again
But that's not un[G]usual
Its just that the [D]moon is full
And you happened to [Em]call
And [Em]here I sit
Hand on the [C]telephone
I'm hearing a [G]voice I'd known
A couple of [D]light years ago
Heading straight for a [Em]fall
As I remember,
Your eyes were bluer than robins' eggs
My poetry was lousy you said
Where are you calling from?
A booth in mid-west
Ten years ago
I bought you some cuff-links
You bought me something
We both know what memories can bring
They bring diamonds and rust

You burst on the scene
Already a legend
The unwashed phenomenon
The original vagabond
You strayed into my arms
And there you stayed
Temporarily lost at sea
The madonna was yours for free
The girl on the half-shell
Could keep you unharmed

Bridge
Now I [Bm]see you standing with brown leaves falling all around
And snow in your [Am]hair
Now [Bm]you're smiling out of the window of that crummy hotel
Over Washington [Am]square
Our [C]breath comes out of white clouds
Mingles and hangs in the [G]air
Speaking [FMaj7]strictly for me
We both could have died then and [G]there [B7]

Now your telling me
Your not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And keeping things vague
'Cos I need some of that vagueness now
Its all come back too clearly
Yes I loved you dearly
And if you're offering diamonds and rust
I've already paid


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The picking sequence for the opening bar is as follows, repeated - slide up 2 frets, D string, to get base run sequence. The remainder uses the same style picking out the base runs (which you can get from the record) using the chords shown.
Em
e|-------------------------|
B|-----0---0-------0---0---|
G|----0---0---0---0---0--0-|
D|---- -----2---4---2------|
A|----- 2---------------2--|
E|--0----------------------|
    |   |   |   |   |   |  

Between verses, play base on D string from fret 2 to 4 to 2 to 4 to 5 to 4 to 5 then to G string 4th fret, then move to B7 shape before returning to the Em sequence.
Play Fmaj7 using standard F-shape with open top E.


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Am B7 Bm C D Em Fmaj7 G

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duckman818 (report)

Capo first fret.