Artist : Neil Diamond Song : Dry Your Eyes Album : Beautiful Noise (1976) Written by : Neil Diamond and Jamie Robbie Robertson (from The Band) Transcription by : Ivo van Poorten This is by no means 100% correct, but the basic chords are right, it sounds nice and is easy to play. Not too difficult to sing either, even for a mediocre singer like me. EADGBe D : x5777x G : 355433 A : 577655 A7 : 575655 Csus4 : x3556x C : x3555x F : 133211 Bb : x1333x C7 : x3535x Note: During the verse, you can hear a second guitar that makes slides from C to D on a single snare and the same for F>G and G>A. It's quite easy to do the same with the uppermost snare of your chord. INTRO ----- | D | _ | D | _ || VERSE ----- | D | D | G | G | G | D | D | A | A7 || Dry your eyes and take your song out, it's a newborn afternoon. And if you can't recall the singer you can still recall the tune. | D | D | G | G | G | D | D | A | A7 || Dry your eyes and play it slowly like you're marching off to war; sing it like you know he'd want it, like we sang it once before. | D | D | G | G | G | D | D | A | D | D || And from the center of the circle to the midst of the waiting crowd, if it ever be forgotten sing it long and sing it loud and come dry your eyes. 'BRIDGE' -------- | Csus4 C | Csus4 C || VERSE ----- | F | F | Bb | Bb | Bb | F | F | C | C7 || And he taught us more about giving than we ever cared to know, but we came to find the secret and we never let it go. | F | F | Bb | Bb | Bb | F | F | C | C7 || And it was more than being holy and it was less than being free, and if you can't recall the reason can you hear the people sing. | F | F | Bb | Bb | Bb | F | F | C | F | F || Right through the lightning and the thunder to the dark side of the moon, to that distant falling angel that descended much too soon and come dry your eyes. ENDING ------ | F | F || [Let somebody else play the melody of the verse on some horn, or hum it yourself, or skip this part :-) ] | F | F | Bb | Bb | Bb | F | F | C | F | F || [...horn...] Come dry your eyes.