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>> 19334358 (Neil Diamond performing Come Dry Your Eyes" at The Band's farewell concert - immorialized by Martin Scorsese in the documetary, The Last Waltz)
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Diamond wrote this song with Robbie Robertson [who died yesterday] of The Band, who produced Diamond's Beautiful Noise album. In his memoir Testimony,Robertson explained that the song was inspired by "how many people felt after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr."
[MLK Jr was assassinated on 4/4/68.]
Diamond played this live at The Band's farewell concert on November 25, 1976 in San Francisco.
This grand affair featured performances by Bob Dylan, Neil Young and many others; it was filmed by Martin Scorsese and released in 1978 as the documentary The Last Waltz.
Diamond played just this song in his set …
He didn't perform it again until his 2017 tour. After the Manchester bombing on May 22 that year, he started dedicating it to the victims.
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/neil-diamond/dry-your-eyes
Dry Your Eyes LYRICS
Dry your eyes, take your song out
It's a newborn afternoon
And if you can't recall the singer, you can still recall the tune
Dry your eyes and play it slowly,like you're marching off to war
Sing it like you know he wanted, like we sang it once before
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
And '''==you taught us more about giving, than we ever cared to know
But we came to find the secret, and we never let it go=='''
And it was more than being holy, oh it was less than being free
And if you can't recall the reason, can you hear the people sing?
'''Right through the lightening and the thunder, to the dark side of the moon
To that distant falling angel, that descended much too soon'''
Come dry your eyes
Come dry your eyes
Writers: Jamie Robertson, Neil Diamond
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.