Neil Diamond – “Song Sung Blue” Live

Neil Diamond Serenades The Audience With His Characteristic Soulful Voice!

It would’ve been delightful and memorable being part of the crowd! He often performed this in concerts and it’s always a crowd-pleaser. Neil Diamond wrote the song himself which has been inspired by Mozart’s piano Concerto #21.

Diamond described “Song Sung Blue” in the liner notes to his 1996 compilation album, In My Lifetime, as a “very basic message, unadorned. I didn’t even write a bridge to it. I never expected anyone to react to “Song Sung Blue” the way they did. I just like it, the message and the way a few words said so many things.”

It deserved its spot in the various hit charts and in 1973, it received two nominations in the Grammy Awards.

• It hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100
• The song  was in the top 40 for 12 consecutive weeks!
• It charted at number 14 in the UK

Said Diamond, “Although the lyric says everything I wanted it to say, there’s not much meat to it, but it turned out to be a major, major copyright.”

+Song Sung Blue lyrics below+

Song sung blue, everybody knows one
Song sung blue, every garden grows one

Me and you are subject to
The blues now and then
But when you take the blues
And make a song
You sing ’em out again
You sing ’em out again

Song sung blue, weeping like a willow
Song sung blue, sleeping on my pillow
Funny thing,
But you can sing it with a cry in your voice
And before you know it get to feeling good
You simply got no choice

Me and you are subject to
The blues now and then
But when you take the blues
And make a song
You sing ’em out again

Song sung blue, weeping like a willow
Song sung blue, sleeping on my pillow
Funny thing,
But you can sing it with a cry in your voice
And before you know it start to feeling good
You simply got no choice

Song sung blue
Song sung blue
Funny thing,
But you can sing it with a cry in your voice