Suzanne

suzanne : neil diamond . album - stones - #17 in uk and #11 on A# hot 200 on mca records in 1971 . Intro : A Bm E A #1 . A suzanne takes you down to her place by the river . . D you can hear the boats go by . . you can spend the night forever . A and you know the girl’s half crazy and that’s why you want to be there . C#m D and she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the A way from china . #2 . A and just when you want to tell her that you have no D love to give her . . she gets you on her wavelength A and lets the river answer . . that you’ve always been her lover . #3 . A and jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water D and he spent a long time watching from the lonely wooden tower . A and when he knew for certain only drowning men could C#m D see him he said , "all men are sailors then until the sea shall free them . " A but he himself was broken , long before the sky would open . D forsaken , almost human , he sank beneath your wisdom like A a stone . Bridge : C#m D and you want to travel with him and you want to travel blind . A E and you think that you may trust him for he’s touched your D E A perfect body with his mind . #3 . A D suzanne takes you down to her place by the river . . you can hear the boats that go by , you can spend the night forever . A and the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor . C#m D and she shows you where to look amid the garbage and the flowers . A there are heroes in the seaweed . . there are children in the morning D they are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever , A while suzanne holds her mirror . a seventies smash from kraziekhat .