8 Chords used in the song: Em, C, G, D, Bm, Am, Fmaj7, B7
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Em Em
Well I'll be damned
C
Here comes your ghost again
G
But that's not unusual
D
Its just that the moon is full
Em
And you happened to call
Em
And here I sit
C
Hand on the telephone
G
I'm hearing a voice I'd known
D
A couple of light years ago
Em
Heading straight for a 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
Bm
Now I see you standing with brown leaves falling all around
Am
And snow in your hair
Bm
Now you're smiling out of the window of that crummy hotel
Am
Over Washington square
C
Our breath comes out of white clouds
G
Mingles and hangs in the air
Fmaj7
Speaking strictly for me
G B7
We both could have died then and there
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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About this song: Diamonds And Rust
"Diamonds & Rust" is a 1975 song written and performed by Joan Baez. In the song, Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old lover, which sends her a decade back in time to a seedy hotel in Greenwich Village. She recalls giving him a pair of cuff links, and summarizes that memories bring "diamonds and rust" (time both turns dirty charcoal into beautiful diamonds and shiny metal into ugly rust).